Hi Ian, Okay, so I modified my lynx.cfg to use HTTP_PROTOCOL:1.1 and to enable its setting in the lynxrc file. Set my user agent to: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; XH; rv:8.578.498) fr, Gecko/20121021 Camino/8.723+ (Firefox compatible)
and tried to access http://www.realclearpolitics.com once more. and get a landing page with this: Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker It looks like they just aren't going to allow any browsers that don't support javascript. Or am I missing something else? > On Thu, 11 Nov 2021, Ian Collier wrote: > > > > > I find it interesting that Lynx cannot verify the certificate of > > 'realclearpolitics.com' (without the www) because the server is > > not returning the certificate chain. But with the www is a completely > > different server which does have a valid certificate. > > > > Anyway I have found that links (the chain) will display the web site > > correctly by default, but gets denied if I supply any one (or more) > > of the following options: > > > > -http-bugs.no-compression 1 > > -http-bugs.http10 1 > > -http.fake-user-agent Lynx > > > > So as far as Lynx (the cat) is concerned, what we need to do in order > > to visit this site is (a) change the user agent, and (b) enable HTTP 1.1. > > > > Enable HTTP 1.1 can be done either in the Options screen or in lynx.cfg. > > User agent can be done either in Options or on the command line. My > > experimentation shows that they want at least your OS in the user agent, > > so "Lynx (Linux 5)" works, while Lynx's default user agent does not > > because it doesn't contain the OS name. > > > > imc > > > > > > -- > ent- -- Rudy Vener Website: http://www.rudyvener.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudySalt
