Re: [Lynx-dev] Host Header Information

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Graham R. Shutt wrote:

> I run Ubuntu 8.04.2 on Linux crusoe 2.6.25.4.emp2 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Jul 11
> 13:58:21 EDT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux.  I can access many web sites with Lynx.
> Recently, however, I tried to access my own web site with lynx 2.8.6rel4 and
> received an "HTTP/1.1 406 Not Acceptable" message.
>
> The company that hosts my web site told me that Lynx does not support
> sending "host header information." (Apparently, the solution, from their
> point of view, would be to have a static IP address assigned to my domain).
>
> Other text-based web browsers, such as elinks and w3m, work fine with my
> site.

for example -

http://forums.htmlhelp.com/lofiversion/index.php/t7828.html

(a short-term fix might be to force lynx to use "L_y_n_x" as the 
user-agent, until the next cut/paste artist adds that to mod_security)

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Thomas E. Dickey
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