dman84 wrote:
> they probably made them proprietary IE language stuff.. cause it doesn't
> work here either.. this is something I see coming.. MS is doing the
> anti-competitive here with their web-pages.
>
I've solved it! It's the UA string. At home, my UA string is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020221
but at work it's
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; m18) Gecko/20010110
Netscape6/6.5
I added the user_pref() for the UA string override on my home machine
and now the page is displayed correctly.
I checked the source and MS serves different pages for Moz and IE; IE's
is full of Javascript and for Moz you get
<input type=hidden name='Query'......
When I changed the UA string it serves up the same code as IE.
Just to confirm this I added ``Netscape6/6.5'' to the end of my home UA
string:
user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U;
Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020221 Netscape6/6.5");
and it still works.
So, it would appear that MS *do* support rival browsers, it's just that
they use ``Netscape6'' in the UA string to identify them rather than
"Gecko".
Credit where credit's due, MS should be given a pat on the back for this.
dman84: can you try this and confirm that it works for you
Regards,
Parish
> -dman84
>
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