Re: wget vs lynx

["Eduardo M KALINOWSKI" <ekalin@gmail.com>]

On Feb 19, 2008 11:53 AM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> wrote:
> On 02/19/08 05:10, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Note:  You can write the "USER_AGENT" string directly into your ".wgetrc" as
> >
> >          user-agent = "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080129 Iceweasel/2.0.0.12 (Debian-2.0.0.12-0etch1)"
> >
> >        which do wonders...
>
> Thanks!  That's better than a huge alias!

For the record, some sites (all the ones I've had problems with, at
least) seem only to check for the presence of "Mozilla"; setting the
user-agent string to simply "Mozilla" fools them. But, especially in
the case of setting it in the .wgetrc file, it is much more convenient
to set it to a full string like that.