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   Non-Robot access to IMDB   
   22 Nov 22 23:27:01   
   
   From: NoEMail@home.org   
      
   As you must have noticed by now IMDB isn't what it used to be.   
      
   For years I have been using (a highly customized version of) W3m   
   for all my web use. I have a dedicated key to jump to IMDB   
   for information search. The modern IMDB treats me as a robot   
   and offers a captcha to which I can't respond. My specific   
   question here: is there someway of accessing the IMDB database   
   without a javascript browser?   
      
   A more general question is how does the site recognize that   
   W3m does not handle javascript but does accept access from,   
   say, Chrome or Firefox even when javascript is turned off.   
      
   How feasible would it be to have a wrapper surrounding   
   W3m or Lynx that makes the site think  javascript is   
   there but turned off?   
      
   The user-agent string does not trick any site that   
   demands javascript.   
      
   Thanks for your thoughts.   
      
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