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New user agent?

Is this new or just new to me?

         

Pushycat

7:48 pm on Jun 14, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Lynx/2.8.4rel.1 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6b

Hi. Has anyone seen this ua before? Does anyone know who's using it? Is it a search engine, just a really tricked-out Lynx ua but otherwise just a browser, or something else? Thanks in advance.

bird

3:14 pm on Jun 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Lynx is a very popular text mode browser (well, as far as text mode browsers go, anyway).

[lynx.browser.org...]

Pushycat

4:11 pm on Jun 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Hi. I am very famililar with Lynx itself because I have lots of entries for Lynx browsers in the browscap.ini file for IIS that I maintain and make available for download at my website and it's a wonderful text browser.

Anyway, it's just that I'd never seen Lynx with a user agent like that before.

After further research as best I can tell all three add-ons relate to SSL so I guess this is just one very secure Lynx browser instead of something else like a search engine bot.

Thanks for your time everyone.

Key_Master

5:24 pm on Jun 16, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Might be this [curl.haxx.se].

littleman

5:08 am on Jun 18, 2002 (gmt 0)



Right out of my Linux box
HTTP_USER_AGENT = Lynx/2.8.5dev.2 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1