They are actively blocking anyone with libwww-FM/2.14 in their user agent string (I tested for that). (Actually, libwww is enough.)
That's not a bug in lynx, and you can change the user agent in the (O)ptions page. On the other hand, I would consider contacting them and asking if they are still all in their right mind...
This might explain it:
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Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 23:29:45 +0200 From: Erik-Jan van Baaren Subject: Re: contact-guitarboard
But I have 6000 bookmarks in Lynx!
Hey wait a sec -- MSIE users can set their browser to download multiple levels of a Web site. Do you block all IE users? If not, then you should not block all Lynx users, either.
In the meantime, I fudged my UA string (changed libwww to lib_www). Which, btw, "bad people" could do too, so you really should block by IP address.
dank u vel, -Walter ___________________________________________________________________________ Walter Ian Kaye, Menlo Park, CA, USA | Macintosh Scripter, Web Developer, http://www.natural-innovations.com/ | Guitarist, Songwriter, Actor, and | Whole Grain Baker (()) ascii ribbon campaign: XX just say no to HTML/RTF in email and usenet //\\ and no to Web sites that do not fully support Lynx
I am banning on ip addresses but also on some UA strings like libwww and common rippers. Lynx is probably a nice ripper to use for the website-ripping people.
But you are right.. i shouldn't ban lynx and never wanted to ban it. I didn't even know libwww was in it's UA string. I removed it from the list.
Erik
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