[Lynx-dev] the frustration of this kind of advice, was about user agent headers

[Karen Lewellen]

Travis,
Please do not ever advise anyone to tamper with a file associated with a 
shared  service like the one we have here.
I am expressing this because right now I am experiencing what happens when 
someone, not myself, does this kind of tampering and not knowing what they 
are doing, creates problems for everyone.
First our lynx startfile  disappeared entirely..for two days.
then when it returned, it came to a start page that does not work fully 
with lynx, all the items provided lead to YouTube, which as others have 
noted no longer really works with lynx at all.
Its 5 a. m. I have been up all night waiting until I can call our admin 
because   either we have a security risk, or the same person tampering with 
lynx  has also changed the browser associated with email accounts, 
meaning I am not going to get any work done today either.
Do not ever even hint that I  am unwilling to help myself.  tampering with 
config files that are provided by shared  hosting services like this ought 
to be a crime.
dreamhost does not even understand how lynx works at all, I provided them 
with a trace file showing how I cannot reach our work control panel, and 
even though they duplicated the problem they could, or would not fix the 
issue.
Its one reason why I happily pay so much for shellworld, I can get my work 
done, at least when no one is damaging the services here.
Karen




On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:

> You can easily create your own lynx.cfg file, put it in your home directory, 
> then start lynx with a -cfg=<filename> command line parameter, and poof, you 
> have full control over your lynx configuration, no need to depend on the 
> system wide one at all.
>
>
> On 11/14/2021 2:29 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >  Russell,
> >  Because my access to lynx is tied to a service, I do not edit their
> >  lynx.cfg files.
> >  In fact, I do not even know where they are kept.
> >  Karen
> >
> >
> >
> >  On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, russellbell@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > > 
> > >      Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'the shellworld setup for lynx, there is
> > >  an associated editor.  One that allows me, at least if the command
> > >  "use control x e for editor" is spoken by lynx when I am on a field.
> > >  If it is a single line, I cannot employ my editor.  Meaning I cannot
> > >  use control r and bring a file into the edit line.  I would have to
> > >  type it manually.'
> > >      You can edit $HOME/.lynxrc directly
> > > 
> > >      useragent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.9.2) 
> > >  Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 l_y_n_x
> > > 
> > >  is mine.
> > > 
> > >  russell bell
> > > 
> > > 
> > >