On 2016-11-03 19:31, Karen Lewellen wrote: > I am wondering what the default user agent header is, if you ask > lynx not to send a user agent header?
If you uncheck the "Send user agent header", it's simply omitted from the list of headers. You can test it at http://headers.cloxy.net/request.php which just echoes back the headers your browser sends. With my stock lynx on Debian, it includes * User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.9dev.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/3.3.8 But when I go into options and turn off "Send user agent header", that header list-item simply isn't present. Lynx also offers you the ability to send the header but spoof its content to pretend to be some other browser. Few sites check this any more, but I've had the occasional site that gives truncated content for normal browsers but gives the full content if you pretend to be Googlebot (Google's web crawler). -tim _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
