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List:       lynx-dev
Subject:    Re: LYNX-DEV user agent?
From:       Matt Ackeret <mattack () area ! com>
Date:       1998-03-31 20:26:24
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On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Ari Moisio wrote:
>  There is no need to hack it into source code, one can simply use
>-useragent command line parameter when needed.

If I knew there were a command line parameter I probably wouldn't've started
this whole hassle.  I just read the man page, and it doesn't mention a
-useragent parameter.

NOTES
     This is the Lynx v2.7.2 Release for Unix/VMS

Admittedly it's not a 2.8 version of Lynx, but if this parameter has existed,
at least it's not in the man page.

>  But why MSIE have to lie it's identity, is there something wrong in www
>sites too.

MSIE has to lie because web sites did the wrong thing all along, and IE had
to falsify *just to work* with web sites that IE could properly display.
(Though I don't know where it was ever documented to check "just the first
part" of the useragent, where people can put the extra stuff on the end..)
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