Re: [Lynx-dev] lynx: Alert!: Unexpected network read error; connection aborted.

[Thomas Dickey]

On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Ignac Vucko wrote:

> Hi Thomas,
>
> How did you disable the useragent?
>
> I tried -useragent="", but that didn't work either.

That's because there are two checks.  An empty useragent normally sends
a default user-agent string, but there's an additional feature that I
added about a year ago

        2009-05-25 (2.8.7pre.3)

which suppresses that entirely.

There's no command-line option (I'm probably going to add one - was also 
exploring a problem with my configure script...).  It can be turned off in 
the options menu with this checkbox - but note that the corresponding 
feature (send_useragent) is normally not saved to .lynxrc:

  Send User-Agent header (!)       : [X]

To allow it to be saved to .lynxrc, you'd add

ENABLE_LYNXRC:send_useragent:ON

to lynx.cfg

> Thanks,
> Ignac
>
> > > > - Lynx Version 2.8.7pre.6 (23 Jun 2009)
> > > >  libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, ncurses 5.7.20090803(wide)
> > > >  Built on linux-gnu Jun 25 2009 07:27:29
> > > > - FORCE_SSL_PROMPT:YES is being used in /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg to ignore 
> > > > SSL cert issues
> > > > - Setting -useragent="firefox user agent" does not resolve the issue
> > > > - wget and curl -sk and Firefox work fine
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Anyone have any ideas?
> >
> > I got it to accept the connection by disabling the user-agent entirely.

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