Thorsten Glaser wrote:
If this means what I think it does, I'm strongly against this option's new default. Lynx should send a user agent by default, for example so
Agreed. Amongst other things, unless it does, Lynx will score a flat zero in browser user statistics, reinforcing the argument that it can be totally ignored.
that people see it's actually used or can optimise for it. The ability to turn it off is good only in corner cases, like pages that misunder- stand the "optimise" bit above.
Sending no User-Agent header is sufficiently unusual, that I think there is a real risk that servers will start discriminating against such browsers.
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