[NTLUG:Discuss] Spoofing IE from Mozilla or Netscape

[Jeff Demel]

Install the Mozilla PrefBar.  It has a nifty drop-down from which you can
choose which user agent it should report.

http://prefbar.mozdev.org/

HTH

-Jeff


> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org 
> [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf Of Wayne Dahl
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:14 AM
> To: NTLUG
> Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] Spoofing IE from Mozilla or Netscape
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 
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