On May 25, 2004 20:08, David B. Williams wrote:
> I've been down this path before and as usual I can't for the life of me
> remember what it was I did to fix it. So any help is appreciated.
>
> The bank that I use for my personal accounts will accept Opera as the
> browser just fine. The bank that I use for my business accounts will not.
>
> I moved to Opera under 9.1 because it worked with both banks. However, it
> didn't work just right with the business bank at first and I could get it
> around the error and continue anyway.
>
> I installed 10.0 and the problem is back.
>
> I have started by enabling everything, setting the id to MSIE6.0 and have
> java installed with a valid path. I always get the error that my sign on
> name or my passwork are incorrect.
>
> Any suggestions?
Sometimes you just have to lie to the site about your browser identity. It's
not uncommon (though improving) for a site to have javascript that instead of
checking "is feature x supported" before using feature x, does something
stupid like "is browser IE or Netscape".
Often if you ask to see the page source you can see the offending code. Don't
know how to do this in Opera (never used it), but every other browser I've
used supports this.
If you see poor code like this you can ask the bank to fix it (good luck!).
But at least in Mozilla and Konqueror, there's a place to configure it to
send a different browser id string for specific sites.
I had to do this with Konqueror for one of my credit card companies. They
have the following embedded in their web page:
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var is_major = parseInt(navigator.appVersion);
var is_nav = ((agt.indexOf('mozilla')!=-1) && (agt.indexOf('spoofer')==-1)
&& (agt.indexOf('compatible') == -1) && (agt.indexOf('hotjava')==-1));
var is_nav6up = (is_nav && (is_major >= 5));
var is_gecko = (agt.indexOf('gecko') != -1);
var is_ie = ((agt.indexOf("msie") != -1) && (agt.indexOf("opera") ==
-1));
if (is_ie || is_nav6up || is_gecko) { //IE + Mozilla
You can see from this that they will accept IE, Mozilla, Hotjava or Opera (and
maybe Netscape, not sure), but not Konqueror. Once I told Konqueror to
pretend it was Mozilla, I was fine.
Of course, sometimes when you tell it to pretend, it then runs into something
it doesn't support and gives interesting behaviour ;^}.
--
Ron Hunter-Duvar
ronhd at users dot sourceforge dot net
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