On Sunday 05 February 2006 12:05 am, Bob S wrote:
Hello SuSE people,
Need to access some government websites that only allow IE6 or whatever to fill out forms etc. (Will they ever learn/ get modern/ whatever?? ) (Really sad how Microsoft controls through the ignorance of bureaucrats )
Anyway, I remember seeing somewhere that Mozilla could "spoof" these sites into thinking they were dealing with (Ugh ! ) the MS browser. Spent a lot of time with Firefox trying to see if it could make it "spoof" the site.
The agent switcher plugin mentioned in another post works for most sites. I noticed my state's motor vehicles site didn't like it. As much as I tried to tell the site that my FF was either ie6 or NS4+ it kept telling me I needed a browser compatible with either ie5+ or ns4+ . I finally gave up and went to the site through Opera, which worked just fine. Of course, I wrote them and sent a screenshot telling them they need to fix their browser detection script. The really sad part - being in government myself - is that I am also guilty of writing IE only sites. I often encourage people to go to my sites then complain to the department that they shouldn't be forced to run IE. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part