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Re: Official Apple II documentation?
On Tue, 6 Jul 2010, Steve Nickolas wrote:
Tony Cianfaglione wrote:
On Mon, 5 Jul 2010, Steve Nickolas wrote:
Lynx supports a setting file ".lynxrc", maybe you can use that for
something? (the manual doesn't describe it very well)
The service doesn't allow users to edit dot files.
Ugh. I've got half a mind to see about starting my own damn freenet just to
provide more up to date software (like Links) that doesn't choke on half the
Internet, but still works over dumb terminals. -_-;
The thing is, anyone can have the function by running Linux at home. I
still use Pine and Lynx, 14 years after I first used them at the local
Freenet (which lasted all of four months), except for nine years I've run
them on my own computer. I could hook up just about any computer to this
one over the serial port, and have the same affect as I had in 1996 when I
dialed into the local Freenet with my Mac Plus using terminal software.
The only difference is I no longer need an ISP with shell access (though
I actually am at the one local ISP that still has shell access), I run
the programs at my end.
I'm not sure that will fix the problem, anyway. I just looked at .lynxrc
and the system wide /etc/lynx.cfg and I see nothing in them about the
user agent, that's not definitive, but usually if something can be set,
it's in the system config, even if remarked out. lynx does warn the
user that they shouldn't really tamper with the user agent header, so
that may explain why no permanent fix. It's an odd situation, because
there can be reasons why a site would want to know your browser and turn
you away (I have come across messages that keep me out, with the false
assumption that I am a bot because I'm using lynx), but when a site
turns you away for the wrong reasons, there seems a tad more legitimacy
to faking what browser you are using.
Invoking
lynx -useragent=Name
would seem to change the header for the session at least.
Michael