On 05 Mar 2005 21:53:13 +0000 Oleg Goldshmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 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). > There is a plugin at least for firefox called user agent switcher, look on the plugins page. You can also do it directly by going to about:config and change general.useragent.override > -- > Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System > at the Tel-Aviv University CC. > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This Mail Was Scanned By Mail-seCure System at the Tel-Aviv University CC. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
