Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx2.8.7pre.4

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 26 May 2009, David Woolley wrote:

> Thorsten Glaser wrote:
>
> > If this means what I think it does, I'm strongly against this option's
> > new default. Lynx should send a user agent by default, for example so
>
> Agreed.  Amongst other things, unless it does, Lynx will score a flat zero in 
> browser user statistics, reinforcing the argument that it can be totally 
> ignored.

Actually, it seems that the only people who are making that sort of
remark will continue to do so, irregardless.

> > that people see it's actually used or can optimise for it. The ability
> > to turn it off is good only in corner cases, like pages that misunder-
> > stand the "optimise" bit above.
>
> Sending no User-Agent header is sufficiently unusual, that I think there is a 
> real risk that servers will start discriminating against such browsers.

On the other hand, you might make a constructive remark,
suggesting how to deal with the existing discrimination.

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