Re: [Lynx-dev] Viewing Dave's Trailer page with Lynx 2.8.7dev.5: error

[Thomas Dickey]

On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Patrick Vervoorn wrote:

> Hello,
>
> My apologies for sending this 'out of the blue', since I did not subscribe to 
> the lynx-dev list.
>
> However, I'm seeing a problem which is rather Lynx-specific, since viewing 
> the same URL, on the same machine, but using Lynx, works rather ok.
>
> The full story is in the email below which I sent to Dave, but since w3m 
> works fine, I'm not sure it's a problem with the site...

The site is checking the user-agent string (which you can modify in the 
options menu).  There was a report (perhaps the same one) a few months 
ago.

> Regards,
>
> Patrick.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:01:51 +0200 (CEST)
> From: Patrick Vervoorn <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Viewing Trailer page with Lynx: error
>
> Hi there,
>
> When I try to view your site after the latest move with Lynx, I invariably 
> get the following error-message:
>
> (This is when viewing both the main site at: 
> http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/ but also happens when I try to view one of 
> the sub-pages directly, like: http://www.davestrailerpage.co.uk/about.html)
>
>
>                                 Not Acceptable
>
>   An appropriate representation of the requested resource / could not be
>   found on this server.
>
>   Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use
>   an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
>
>
>
> When using something like w3m, it is displayed. Using a graphical browser 
> like Firefox also works fine.
>
> Is there anything you can do from your side to be able to view your Trailer 
> page using Lynx?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Patrick.
>
>
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