Wayne--
Sorry for being unclear. The useragent string is sent by your browser
to the server for every network request. It's a string that contains
information identifying the user agent (your browser make, model,
version, language, OS, etc.), something like "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.3+) Gecko/20010906". It seems that
something in the Microsoft Outlook Web Access application can't properly
process logins from useragent strings that it doesn't recognize, at
least that's what I think was happening for me.
So what you can try to do is "spoof" your useragent string; basically
you tell Mozilla to identify itself with a custom string instead of its
default string. You can do this manually by editing prefs.js ... as an
example, add the line:
user_pref("general.useragent.override","Mozilla/4.78 [en] (Win98; U)");
(that spoofs as Netscape 4.78 on Win98)
...or use the useragent toolbar at
http://www.illsley.org/useragent.shtml to do it easily for you.
Of course, there's no guarantee that this is even the same problem I was
having; the symptoms just sound similar. Just something you can try.
If it turns out that spoofing allows you to login properly, contact your
sysadmin so he/she can fix the configuration.
Good luck
--J
WDA wrote:
> Forgive my total lack of ignorance, but this message is a little above
> me - could you be a little more exact. First, where is my useragent?
> How is the useragent modified? Perhaps a step by step explanation would
> help. Info and your time appreciated. Again, thanks.
>
> Wayne
>
>
> Jason Johnston wrote:
>
>> Try this as well: spoof your useragent string so that Moz identifies
>> itself as IE or NS4. I was having the same problems logging in until
>> I tried spoofing the useragent string, then it worked fine. That told
>> me that it was a server issue. I brought this to the attention of my
>> sysadmin, he did some sort of server config thing and it now works
>> with the normal Mozilla useragent string.
>>
>> Good tool for doing the spoofing: http://www.illsley.org/useragent.shtml
>>
>> --J
>>
