Re: Google does not work?

yeti <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2025 11:03:21 +0042
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.lynx.devel
Organization Democratic Order of Pirates International (DOPI)
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Riku Virtanen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there any method to use Google with Lynx?

Chawan had some changes to keep Big-G working:

<https://git.sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/commit/6b57aef32e1d17758f429ff521bc9857f9d3edd3>

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1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

M res/config.toml

M res/config.toml => res/config.toml +1 -1

@@ 150,7 150,7 @@ x => {
 # it seems they no longer allow searches without JS.
 # at least the old page still works
 default-headers = {
-	User-Agent = "w3m/0.5.3+git20230718",
+	User-Agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10A5376e Safari/8536.25",
 	Accept = "text/html, text/*;q=0.5, */*;q=0.4",
 	Accept-Encoding = "gzip, deflate",
 	Accept-Language = "en;q=1.0",
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Can you try that UA string with Lynx?

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