Re: Alternative User-Agent header
Travis Siegel <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel |
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fanfiction.net is using cloudflare to help distribute the load of web requests. Cloudflare apparently requires javascript, cookies, and something in the browser string that identifies the browser as a standard browser. Two of those you can fix with lynx, but you're never going to solve the javascript issue just using lynx. I've not tried hitting fanfiction.net using one of the various encarnations that can handle javascript, it may or may not work. I also haven't tried changing my identification string, though I doubt highly that will solve the problem. I'm guessing that if you could find the ip address of the fanfiction.net actual servers, and not the cloudflare servers they use to spread the workload, then you could bypass all these checks, and then the site may or may not work properly, but at least then you'd have a fighting chance. I'm not convinced cloudflare will let lynx through no matter what you do try to get around it. On 6/24/2021 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote: > Do you mind testing that by visiting > Www.fanfiction.net > Since you say you can browse everywhere? > > > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Stef Caunter wrote: > >> I can browse anywhere using this alias for 'lynx' >> >> alias lynx='/usr/local/bin/lynx -nopause -tna -useragent=IE . ' >> >> "IE" seems to be the most innocuous choice for the major news sites. I >> have not tried "googlebot" ;) >> >> /stef >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Lynx-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev >> > > _______________________________________________ > Lynx-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev