User agent

[Janina Sajka]

Don't know. Try it. What's to lose?


David Poehlman writes:
> From: "David Poehlman" <poehlman1 at comcast.net>
> 
> can I just tack the user agent equals followed by the string onto the end of
> the .lynxrc file?
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2004 10:22 PM
> Subject: Re: User agent
> 
> 
> Earlier today, three folks here posted strings that can be used. Here
> they are, separated by blank lines, just in case, so you know what's in
> them:
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET
> CLR 1.1.4322)
> 
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461)
> 
> Now, where you put one of these:
> 
> Do o for options. From here on it depends on how you've configured your
> lynx browser, because there are, I think, three different interfaces to
> the options screens.
> 
> One of them is an actual web page interface. You're looking for "user
> agent." When you find it you'll see the lynx version designation. It's
> an edit field, so just clear it out with Ctrl-u and put one of the above
> strings in with the Speakup clipboard.
> 
> If you have the older (and my preferred) single-char command interface,
> the "user agent" selection is performed with the capital A. This takes
> you to an edit field that you clear with Ctrl-u and then fill from the
> Speakup clipboard, as above.
> 
> Once you do this, just do left arrow to return to lynx. Test your work
> by going to Raul's web page. It should tell you that you're using
> whichever of the strings you put in.
> 
> PS: You can also edit your .lynxrc, but there's no reason to make this a
> permanent thing, unless you really want to.
> 
> Cheryl Homiak writes:
> > From: Cheryl Homiak <chomiak at charter.net>
> >
> > I don't see a masquerade-as in my lynx help, but Ii do see a --useragent=.
> > but I'm not sure how to format it or how much I have to put in. for
> > instance, can I just have something like MSIE6.0 or do I have to put other
> > info in and if so do i leave spaces or use colons or what?
> > I did try MSIE6.0 for starters; both the asmodean site and BOA listed
> > that as what I had but BOA still said I needed to download another
> > browser. I did read the useragent info on the website that was listed, but
> > i still didn't really understand how to format something on the lynx
> > command line. Of course, BOA could also be picking up that the encryption
> > is different (192 bit as I believe Janina points out in her letter) I
> > suppose. But the encryption is definitely there.
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- 
> > Cheryl
> >
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> Janina Sajka
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> 
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> 
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Janina Sajka
Email: janina at rednote.net		
Phone: +1 (202) 408-8175

Director, Technology Research and Development
American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
http://www.afb.org

Chair, Accessibility Work Group
Free Standards Group
http://a11y.org