On 7 Mar 2009, at 10:12:43 PST, Dan wrote:
> At 5:46 PM -0800 3/6/2009, Ken Daggett wrote: >> On 6 Mar 2009, at 17:14:39 PST, Dan wrote: >>> At 4:45 PM -0800 3/6/2009, Ken Daggett wrote: >>>> Hmmm. How does one go about causing a browser to "report" that >>>> it is IE6 for Windows? >>> >>> Safari's preferences, Advanced tab, check the box to enable the >>> Develop menu. Then in that Develop menu, select an appropriate >>> User >>> Agent item. >> >> Interesting? Never noticed that bit before. However, I still can't >> "properly" spoof <http://workout.ifit.com/> to see me as IE so that >> I can use the site. The query reports as a version of Mozilla. > > No, it reports it properly, as MSIE. > Your User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0) > > The problem is that their script is looking at more than the user > agent to lock out Macs specifically. > > OTOH, if you go to ifit.com, the site looks quite nice. It links to > workout.ifit.com as the "old site". Perhaps they have a new location > which you should be using? ---------------- Well, I don't know what they are "checking" but I can connect to the "old site" using IE 5.2(mac). However that browser won't interface with my treadmill, while IE on my old win2k laptop works ok. Sure wish I could puzzle out why. Thanks for the input. Ken http://mysite.verizon.net/res7gt1w/stackomacs --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
