Hi everybody,

A technical question follows a rant (see the bottom of the post).

I don't belong to the category of people who write lots of letters and
emails because some websites don't work with anything but IE5.5. It
does annoy me though, especially when something very useful stops
working.

For years I have been using www.bengurion-airport.co.il to track
flight arrivals and departures from the airport and to look up flight
schedules. Worked wonderfully, was incredibly useful.

No longer. The domain does not seem to be resolvable. A Google later I
discovered http://www.ben-gurion-airport.co.il that redirects to
www.iaa.gov.il and renders just fine with Mozilla. There are prominent
links to real-time flight schedules and planned flight schedules -
looks like a replacement.

Click on a link, and get "dafdefan lo mat'im" from

http://www.iaa.gov.il/Rashat/he-IL/Rashot/BrowserSystemMessage.aspx

Obviously I am using a browser that is above IE5.5, so the message is
a lie. ;-)

Before getting seriously pissed off I configured Konqueror to
masquerade as IE6.0 on XP and was able to look up the flight
schedule. However, if Hamakor or anyone else wants to add IAA to a
list of enemies of freedom, I am all for it. People who *really*
deserve being publicly flogged with a differential SCSI cable at the
next August penguin are the ones who created the IAA web pages -
http://www.matrix.co.il.

As a final insult the flight info pages cannot be searched from IE on
Windows Mobile 2003 (i.e. on my iPAQ) - the pull-down buttons on the
forms are unusable.

Now, to the technical question: is Mozilla configurable to pretend it
is IE, like Konqueror? Couldn't find anything fast enough (Mozilla
1.7.3 on RHEL WS3).

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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