copyright has nothing to do with my download error

copyright has nothing to do with my download error

[Cheryl Homiak]

Ok, I thought I had tried this with other books in the past, but I wanted to be
sure. I just went to the site and tried to download "american Notes" by charles
Dickens. Clearly said "public domain. Got the same errors as with "story of my
life".
If anybody does find the HTTP-Refer line in the lynx.cfg file, or a variant
thereof, please let us know. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist, just that i
haven't found it. I could be overlooking something.

Re: copyright has nothing to do with my download error

[Janina Sajka]

The two REFERER statements are definitely in lynx.cfg, and they are definitely set "TRUE" by default.

Not sure where each distro puts lynx.cfg, but a locate lynx.cfg' should find each and every one. Under Red Hat I see
them in /usr/local/lib. I've also seen it in /etc. And, of course, you can have a lynx.cfg in your $HOME directory,
which would take precedence.

Load the file into your favorite text editor and search for:

no_refer

This should take you right to it. You will need to arrow down past all the comments that explain what this setting does
to the actual setting statement. That actual statement is:
NO_REFERER_HEADER:TRUE

Notice this is all in capital letters. Change the TRUE to FALSE.

The next one, NO_FILE_REFERER is the very next section down.

On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Ok, I thought I had tried this with other books in the past, but I wanted to be
> sure. I just went to the site and tried to download "american Notes" by charles
> Dickens. Clearly said "public domain. Got the same errors as with "story of my
> life".
> If anybody does find the HTTP-Refer line in the lynx.cfg file, or a variant
> thereof, please let us know. I'm not claiming it doesn't exist, just that i
> haven't found it. I could be overlooking something.
> 
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: copyright has nothing to do with my download error

[Janina Sajka]

Ann:

My best understanding is that lynx must work with the site. I believe I'm correct in my understanding that it is far and
away the most used broser among those of us using linux, with W3M probably second because of the support for W3M in
emacspeak. Furthermore, I doubt anyone is going to write a browser specifically for BookShare. So, I don't see how
support for lynx can be avoided if BookShare is to support users on linux.



On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Ann Parsons wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> OK, folks, I've been watching this thread all afn because it interests
> me. I think that Cheryl deserves an apology from somebody because they
> gave her in accurate info.  Further, I also think that there should be
> a note placed on these pages explaining how to configure Lynx in order
> to use the site effectively.  
> 
> Question?  Assuming that the unpack tool and the VR reader are
> modified for Linux, will Lynx work when copyrighted files are
> downloaded?  
> 
> Ann P.
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

Re: copyright has nothing to do with my download error

[Cheryl Homiak]

Ok, I don't see that anybody needs to appologize to me for anything; it's all in
the discussions of a list.
However, I need that note on how to configure lynx now; as I said, I've tried
TRUE and FASLE on both the NO_REFERER lines with no improvement on results.