You could try changing to Westpac. Either accidentally or deliberately (?), they have managed to write a web based banking system that is supported by all recent browsers I have tried - Netscape & IE (RH, Mac, Win), Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla (RH, Mac). Other banks are just bloody minded.
On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, John Nicholls wrote: > In October I participated in a trial by the National Bank of their new > browser-based Internet banking service. I was able to use the trial > without problem on a Red Hat 6.2 box with Netscape 4.72. The trial > concluded and the new service was launched on 19 November. Since then I > have been unable to access it. > > When you log onto the Internet Banking home page and press Login new > service, the bank checks whether you are using one of the supported > browsers, essentially recent versions of Internet Explorer or Netscape > on Windows or Mac. If so, you should go straight to a screen with a > login prompt. If not, you should see a screen saying your browser is > unsupported, and inviting you to download a supported version of IE or > Netscape, or continue anyhow - the unsupported option. It was this > unsupported option I used during the trial. > > Now using Netscape 4.72 or 4.78, selecting the unsupported option does > nothing. Following the example of a SLUG member who has used the service > successfully with Mozilla under Mandrake 8.0, I installed Mozilla 0.96 > and Java pug-in 1.3.1. All cookies are enabled, Java and JavaScript are > enabled, and there is a symbolic link from javaplugin_oji.so to > /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/. Under this setup, when I select Login new > service, all I get is a new completely blank screen. > > Querying the bank has produced only a form letter saying that the system > is compatible with some configurations of Linux but Linux is unsupported > by them, and that the requirements are to enable JavaScript and 128-bit > Encryption. > > It is simple to check if your system will handle this the service. You > don't have to register or even be a National customer. Just go to > http://www.national.com.au/Internet_Banking/0,,153,00.html and select > Login - new service. You should go to the login screen, either directly > or through the unsupported browser option. If you can get to the login > screen which prompts you for a National ID and password, > congratulations, you've succeeded. If not, you're in the same position > I'm in. > > I don't know what to try next. Any suggestions would be appreciated. > > John > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
