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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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