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Re: [Lynx-dev] Alternative User-Agent header


From: Karen Lewellen
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] Alternative User-Agent header
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 00:35:07 -0400 (EDT)

Interestingly enough I do know there are settings in cloudflare that can allow lynx to work..a few sites I visit use cloudflare, but lynx is not blocked. even edbrowse cannot get past the fanfiction.net door, and its use of JavaScript is more current then links the chain and e-links, neither of which work. Fanfiction.net itself does not require JavaScript, I honestly wish I could reach the owner and share cloudflare suggestions that still keep them safe, but open the door. Your fanfiction server idea sounds like hacking, would not let me use my years worth of bookmarks again, and as you say produces a lesser result. In fact I wonder if that is how fanfiction.ws was working until the main site shut it down.

Do not even get me started on the real problem where the captcha is concerned, hcaptcha which is the service cloudflare is using that gets run into with lynx. Hcaptcha claims they want to be accessible, had a heated discussion with the staff a few weeks back. Their own site requires JavaScript to get the accessible cookies, which is counterproductive.
Karen


On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:

fanfiction.net is using cloudflare to help distribute the load of web requests.?? Cloudflare apparently requires javascript, cookies, and something in the browser string that identifies the browser as a standard browser.?? Two of those you can fix with lynx, but you're never going to solve the javascript issue just using lynx. I've not tried hitting fanfiction.net using one of the various encarnations that can handle javascript, it may or may not work. I also haven't tried changing my identification string, though I doubt highly?? that will solve the problem.?? I'm guessing that if you could find the ip address of the fanfiction.net actual servers, and not the cloudflare servers they use to spread the workload, then you could bypass all these checks, and then the site may or may not work properly, but at least then you'd have a fighting chance.?? I'm not convinced cloudflare will let lynx through no matter what you do try to get around it.


On 6/24/2021 6:31 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
 Do you mind testing that by visiting
 Www.fanfiction.net
 Since you?? say you can browse?? everywhere?



 On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, Stef Caunter wrote:

>  I can browse anywhere using this alias for 'lynx'
> > alias lynx='/usr/local/bin/lynx -nopause -tna -useragent=IE . ' > > "IE" seems to be the most innocuous choice for the major news sites. I
>  have not tried "googlebot" ;)
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