Re: sudden site access failure:
Karen Lewellen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Rudy, When you use your user agent and visit m.fanfiction.net Are you presented with cloudflare? Karen On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, Rudy Vener wrote: > Hi Karen, > The standard default is not to save the user agent string to the .lynxrc file. > And even if you change the user agent during one session, it wouldn't overwrite > your current .lynxrc file unless you save the changes. > > The flip side of this is that you have to enter a new user agent string each time you run lynx. > That's the main reason I use my own lynx script. > > On the other hand, you can use an alias: > alias lynx="lynx -useragent=\"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; XH; rv:8.578.498) fr, Gecko/20121021 Camino/8.723+ (Firefox compatible Lynx)\" " > and lynx will use that user agent string for the life of the shell session. > > When you are done, then > unalias lynx > will return everything back to normal. > > Caveat. All my examples are for the ksh shell. I know most people use bash, but > I'm not familiar with it. > > Rudy > On Sat, Nov 13, 2021 at 07:49:15PM -0500, Karen Lewellen wrote: >> Rudy, >> All of my access to lynx is tied to shell services. Shellworld mainly, >> and the shell provided by dreamhost. >> There is a choice in the options menu, below the send user agent check box >> that is a field which I would have to remove and edit. >> I do not run scripts for anything, and try not to make major changes to >> config files for the services I use. >> its been several years since anyone has built lynx for DOS which remains >> my desktop operating system. >> I do have a copy of Links the chain for dos which is a mix, mostly because >> it does not read things as fluidly. >> So for those not using a script, as Rudy does, would my testing the user >> agent be a firm change if not written to disc? >> I have no access to the lynx.cfg files on my dreamhost shell, the place >> where I would be doing this test. >> Thanks, >> Karen >> >> >> >> On Sat, 13 Nov 2021, Rudy Vener wrote: >> >>>> realclearpolitics.com >>>> Message-ID: >>>> <[email protected]> >>>> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed >>> >>> Hi Karen, >>> By default, lynx doesn't save the User Agent string in .lynxrc. This >>> could be changed in lynx.cfg, but I just call lynx from >>> a script in ~/bin/lynx like this: >>> /usr/local/bin/lynx-2.9.0-dev9 -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; XH; rv:8.578.498) fr, Gecko/20121021 Camino/8.723+ (Firefox compatible Lynx)" $* >>> >>> Rudy >>> >>>> From: Karen Lewellen <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> Hi Rudy, everyone. >>>> Is the user agent header field saved when changed, if one chooses the >>>> write options to disc selection? >>>> I want to test Rudy's user agent on my office shell, and as that does >>>> not seem to be a cut / paste box, wanted to ask before I try and work on >>>> this. >>>> Thanks, >>>> Karen >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Rudy Vener >>> Website: http://www.rudyvener.com >>> Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudySalt >>> >>> > > -- > Rudy Vener > Website: http://www.rudyvener.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/RudySalt > >