[NTLUG:Discuss] Spoofing IE from Mozilla or Netscape

[Harshal Vaidya]

If you have an option:

Use Opera. It comes for free ( along with advertising
)
It has an option in preferences which tells it to
identify it as IE to any site it visits.

--- Wayne Dahl <w.dahl4 at verizon.net> wrote:
> 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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Harshal Vaidya.

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