Re: Eww can't searx (?)

Michael Heerdegen via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <[email protected]> Wed, 13 May 2026 16:53:57 +0200
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Michael Heerdegen <[email protected]> writes:

> It seems that one of the most often recommended ways to search the
> internet - using "Searx" (a metasearch engine) cannot be used with the
> built-in browser of Emacs - EWW.

Unfortunately it is not as easy as

  (setq url-user-agent "Something Welcome")

I tried a lot of things to tweak the request, like changing
`url-http-attempt-keepalives' or the used encoding, nothing helped.  The
only thing that (obviously) makes a difference is setting
`eww-retrieve-command', which delegates the task to a browser that
doesn't share the same problem.


Michael.