On Jun 11, 2006, at 2:24 PM, dgmm wrote:
On Sunday 11 June 2006 16:34, Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 6/11/06, dgmm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sunday 11 June 2006 03:49, Nikolas Britton wrote:
I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with
Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least
but I
don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In
Konqueror
simply goto Settings > Configure Konqueror... > Browser
Identification, and then click on "New...". set it to
http://chat.msn.com and use "Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP".
She can get into the the relevant groups page and access all the
features
there except for the live chat room. Closer inspection looks
like it's
all ActiveX stuff so that's most likely the problem. I tried as you
suggested but Konqueror crashed :-(
Spoof as Firefox 1.0/1.5 on Windows 2000 / XP.
Spoof as NN4 / NN6 on Windows 95 / 98.
Spoof as IE4 on Windows 95 etc. etc.
It must be assuming you have ActiveX because your identifying
yourself
as IE6/XP...
It appears to be more complex than either of us thought :-(
I tried various useragent strings in Konqueror and the nearest I
got was a
blank chat page with no warnings.
I've now also tried putting an IE5/Win95 useragent string into
general.useragent.override in the about.config page of FireFox.
This fooled msn completely but didn't do me any good.
--------------------------------------------------------
We are now downloading MSN Chat software.
If a Security Warning box like this appears, please click its Yes
button to
complete the download.
NOTE: If you click No, you will not be able to chat.
The download is in progress
It takes approximately 2 minutes.
(using a 28.8k modem)
--------------------------------------------------------
Of course, nothing downloaded, and even if it had, well it ain't
gonna work.
I've got Wine compiled now so will see what I can do with that.
--
Dave
Yeah, I've tried similar solutions with Wine to try and get other
programs to work that require ActiveX (Steam/HL), and I have been
partially successful. In the end, you may just have to have a
computer which can access MSN chat using XP or maybe OSX (?). I don't
forsee full support being available to the Unix crowd anytime in the
future, since many MSN related items are based on ActiveX and MS-
rightfully so-won't give up something that makes their OS 'more
accessible' to some items, be they websites or other software related
things such as installers, etc since that would be giving up part of
their market share.
Also, MS has been playing a cat and mouse game with the Wine people
for quite some time locking the Wine folks out by restricting
operating systems versions and software installations (DX9, IE, etc),
which has-for the most part-worked in MS's favor, but you may be
lucky and are able to access MSN chat on FreeBSD by some oversight by
a dev somewhere ;).
-Garrett
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