On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 5:18 PM, David Woolley <[email protected]> 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.
I'm not sure that's a reason to do anything anymore. > >> 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. Such is the case right now. Servers are explicitly refusing to answer requests from lynx. I don't know if leaving out the header solves anything, but I like the additional configurability. > Stefan http://caunter.ca/contact.html _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
