Re: sudden site access failure: realclearpolitics.com

well,  that is a fine question.
I would ask too, if an option for more than one user agent might be 
possible  as well?



On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, dan d. wrote:

> The obvious question, why isn't it included in lynx the cat; as at least a configuration option?
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> On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Karen Lewellen wrote:
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>> Actually, yes it does, or it can if compiled to support JavaScript.  there
>> are even  links packages for DOS that both support JavaScript and work on
>> this  site.
>> What personally bugs me about links the chain, at least in stand alone
>> form,  is its inability to support cookies, or speak very well.
>>
>> Kare
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>> On Fri, 12 Nov 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
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>>> As far as I know, links doesn't support javascript, but it works on their
>>> site. <sahrug>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/12/2021 1:36 PM, Rudy Vener wrote:
>>>>  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
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>  --
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