On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 3:54 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> wrote: > I haven't checked that really current version out yet but was using > development versions of lynx that kept getting me access denied and this was > with the correct credentials. Later I found in my gmail when I was able to > access it with another browser that the attempt had been blocked by google > since the program used to attempt the access didn't have enough modern > security equipment in it for google to allow a connection unless or until I > lowered security to use legacy software. Don't you just love calling > lynx-dev legacy software even though it still has active support? I don't!On > Wed, 1 Jul 2015, Stefan Caunter wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2015 13:24:41 >> From: Stefan Caunter <[email protected]> >> To: Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> >> Cc: David Woolley <[email protected]>, >> "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the "Forbidden" error message >> >> News to me. >> >> Are you saying that lynx over https cannot talk to gmail? >> >> Using >> >> Lynx Version 2.8.9dev.3 (05 Jan 2015) >> libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.0.1j, ncurses 5.9.20110404 >> Built on darwin13.4.0 Jan 5 2015 21:06:25 >> >> gmail loads basic html version just fine for a gmail account, see >> header from logged in session >> >> HTTP/1.0 200 OK >> Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 >> Content-Security-Policy: script-src 'self' 'unsafe-inline' >> 'unsafe-eval' 'nonce-ZJsmcZTNYUBsA/VEKdc6UwT/3LE' >> https://ssl.gstatic.c >> om;frame-src 'self' https://isolated.mail.google.com >> https://accounts.google.com;object-src 'none';report-uri >> /mail/cspreport >> Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, must-revalidate >> Pragma: no-cache >> Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT >> Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2015 17:22:10 GMT >> X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff >> X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN >> X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block >> Content-Length: 0 >> Server: GSE >> Set-Cookie: GMAIL_ZY=e; Path=/mail/u/0; Secure; HttpOnly >> Alternate-Protocol: 443:quic,p=1 >> >> --- >> >> Stefan Caunter >> Hamilton, Canada >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 11:58 PM, Jude DaShiell <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> Well, if someone tries reading gmail using lynx and security level on >>> their >>> account is set to high, lynx will not be allowed access since it hasn't >>> got >>> all of the modern security equipment installed in google chrome. >>> >>> On Tue, 30 Jun 2015, David Woolley wrote: >>> >>>> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:59:25 >>>> From: David Woolley <[email protected]> >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Getting the "Forbidden" error message >>>> >>>> On 30/06/15 21:29, Shel Talmy wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi, via google, acknowledge this has been going on for years, and it's >>>>> happening to me increasingly. >>>>> >>>>> I'm using LYNX 2.87, which apart from from the above, works fine. >>>>> >>>>> Please tell me what to do to correct this, and thanks. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> If you are being asked for a password, supply the right one. Otherwise >>>> it >>>> is likely to be a legal question, rather than a technical one, i.e. is >>>> there >>>> any legal reason why the servers should not refuse to talk to Lynx, and >>>> if >>>> so, are you prepared to take the operators to court. >>>> >>>> In many cases of discrimination against Lynx, using the user Agent >>>> string >>>> for a recent IE or Mozilla may get round the block, but the site may >>>> then >>>> serve web applications that only works on those browsers.
You can call it whatever you want, lynx works fine with gmail. I don't understand the implication that it doesn't, suggested on this list, without supporting evidence or a trace. S _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
