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| From: | David Woolley |
| Subject: | Re: [Lynx-dev] Why Won't this Site Work in LYNX? |
| Date: | Tue, 3 May 2022 11:12:00 +0100 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.14.0 |
On 03/05/2022 01:18, Karen Lewellen wrote:
if l y n x should expand the default user agent options to help bypass issues of this kind
That could well provoke an arms race, with all of the options being blacklisted by sites. Setting user agents is all about deception.
The only absolutely safe user agent strings are those that belong to mainstream web applications engines, but using them risks receiving pages that only works with such engines.
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