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?
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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



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