Re: [Lynx-dev] Problem accessing a site with Lynx

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, Fr?d?ric L. W. Meunier wrote:

> http://mamedev.org/ (returns an "Apache 2 Test Page")
> http://mamedev.org/release.html ("03 Forbidden")
>
> They work fine with Firefox. Any idea about what's wrong on their (?) side ? 
> The site looks clean (no Javascript and such).
>
> I'm using 2.8.7dev.7. Same problem with 2.8.6rel.5 from Slackware.

lynx -trace doesn't show much:

Writing:
GET / HTTP/1.0\r
Host: mamedev.org\r
Accept: text/html, text/plain, text/css, text/sgml, */*;q=0.01\r
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, compress, bzip2\r
Accept-Language: en\r
User-Agent: Lynx/2.8.7dev.4 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.8c\r
\r
----------------------------------
Sending HTTP request.
HTTP: WRITE delivered OK
HTTP request sent; waiting for response.
HTTP: Trying to read 1535
HTTP: Read 1440
HTTP: Rx: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
HTTP: Scanned 2 fields from line_buffer


perhaps they're checking the user-agent, or disapprove of OpenSSL.  (I'll 
look further this evening, to see if I can find a cause).  It works with 
w3m and links as well.

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