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Re: [Lynx-dev] about user agent headers


From: Travis Siegel
Subject: Re: [Lynx-dev] about user agent headers
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2021 21:31:07 -0500
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/91.3.0

Karen.

Building a lynx.cfg file with the parameters you need is hardly programmer territory, and the services you pay for certainly support such a setup, so there's zero conflict with the service or the browser, but if you're unwilling to help yourself when said help is easily obtained, then I doubt anyone can help you solve your problem.  Sometimes, it's necessary to implement your own solutions.  Commercial companies aren't going to do it for you, and since both lynx and your two companies provide the avenue to solve the problem, if you're not interested in taking the option, then that's fine, but you need to know that your continued refusal to craft a solution for yourself certainly won't help now or in the future.

On 11/14/2021 5:31 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Travis,
it  may be so that I could do this, but I have no desire to do this.
I pay two companies good money to maintain the stability of my services. the last thing I wish to do is risk damaging that functionality by tampering with the foundational file of the browser I use countless times a day. That is me, I respect those who are programmers at heart, but I am not one of them. Besides, Rudy illustrated that I will not gain my single goal by taking these steps. Certainly, I might pay a programmer good money to build a current Lynx for DOS  package, allowing me to run Lynx from my desktop, and giving me a personal
 lynx.cft that way.
Otherwise, I prefer leaving things as  they are here.

  Kare



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
> > >





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