[NTLUG:Discuss] Spoofing IE from Mozilla or Netscape

[Wayne Dahl]

I seem to remember from many moons ago some discussion about making
website that require IE to think that Mozilla WAS IE so Mozilla could be
used and not that crappy browser Brother Gates gives us.

Here's my dilemma.  Some idiot in the higher ranks of Verizon (probably
from the old Bell Atlantic side as GTE used Netscape products and HPUX)
decided we needed to pay for a whole bunch of M$ licenses and have moved
us strictly to M$ products.  We now run NT 4.0 on our workstations at
work, soon to be Winderz 2000.  We have an online course of instruction
of many and sundry subjects that we used to could use Netscape for. 
Now, however, the stupid thing won't run for anything other than IE.  Is
there a way to make that website think Mozilla or Netscape is IE?  I
hate using it...I have IE 6.0 on this box as a dual boot and I can use
it, but I'd rather not.

And we won't even get into the frustration I received last night when,
after completing a 2 hour course from home, as I'm exiting the class
when it's supposed to send the course completion to another application
that's watching for the completion, I get a javascript error and when I
click on either the yes or no, the damn thing starts the course over. 
Upshot is, it never sends the course completion to the other application
and I haven't gotten credit that would show up on my transcripts at work
that I've taken the course.  That's something I'm going to have to bring
up with the powers that be that oversee this course of instruction, but
needless to say, I was severely pissed off at M$ and whatever idiot
decided we HAD to use software designed around the M$ platform.

Thanks,

Wayne