Re: directv blocking lynx

Sorry, I erroneously sent a private reply, since I don't reply often
enough to mailing lists to remember that "list reply" in mutt is
different than "reply", and I thought others might be interested in my
reply, so I'm reposting it here.

On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 01:11:36PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> they're also blocking elinks and w3m.  Thanks for the heads up on links
> though.

It depends on the useragent.  I, too, see it hang if I don't change the
useragent string, but I have a number of aliases for lynx that present
different useragent strings.  A Firefox useragent also hangs, an
Internet Explorer useragent gets a page that says my browser isn't
supported, but here are a few that get the page with lynx:

Firefox on Android:
lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.0; Mobile; rv:54.0) Gecko/54.0 Firefox/54.0"

The long ago discontinued Sidekick, from T-Mobile:
lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (Danger hiptop 5.0; U; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050920"

Blackberry:
lynx -useragent="Mozilla/5.0 (BB10; Kbd) AppleWebKit/537.35+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/10.3.3.2205 Mobile Safari/537.35+"

I also got it to load using useragents for Chrome on Android, Firefox on
IOS, and Safari on IOS, but those useragent strings are much longer, and
I didn't feel like posting them here, either broken into multiple lines,
or joined into one really long line, but they work.  Interestingly, I
have three different Googlebot useragents I found somewhere, which all
hung, but I was successful with a useragent that was nothing but a nasty
message about what kind of despicable people block browsers based on
useragent, but I won't post that one here.

Chuck