Hi, I seem to have resolved my problem. I thought I�d document what I found.
The first thing I did was to upgrade to Sun Java 1.5.0_01. This change alone meant that I was able to use the internet banking without spoofing the User Agent from Mozilla 1.7.3, whereas previously this had not worked. I also tried Firefox 0.9.3, which also worked without any spoofing. As this was a fresh install of firefox, I can�t say anything about how it worked with the earlier Java. I�m just glad that all this works again. It�s a pain in the butt when it breaks. And I feel a whole lot more confident about using this platform than using the standard �supported� platforms... I had initially gone for Blackdown java because I had better experiences with it than sun Java on Linux in the past. However, this experience is turning my opinion the other way. However, I still get annoyed having to agree to that damned Sun Binary Code License all the time... Thanks to all who replied. Ben. On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:54, Ben Stanley wrote: > Summary: it is quite unreliable on this software platform. It often > gives me a java null source exception error. > > I�m going to upgrade to Sun Java 1.5.0. If that doesn�t solve the > problem, I�ll try Firefox (as both of you are using it). > > Ben. > > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:24, Ben Stanley wrote: > > It just worked for me too... I was looking through the javascript and > > java log windows, and after clearing them and re-loading the page, it > > all came good. I haven�t changed my user agent string from the one I had > > before... wierd. > > > > Thanks for the replies guys. > > > > Ben Stanley. > > > > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:14, Rod Butcher wrote: > > > I've just paid my rent online at StG - this week I had to spoof as I.E.5 > > > Mac.. using Firefox 0.93. You need to prove to them that you're not a > > > communist using FREE SOFTWARE. > > > cheers > > > Rod > > > > > > On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 23:02 +1100, Ben Stanley wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I had St George Internet banking working fine until just recently. I was > > > > using the user agent spoofing technique described previously on this > > > > mailing list. I last used it successfully on Wednesday 5th January 2005. > > > > > > > > I have now tried to use it on Saturday and Sunday 8th and 9th of January > > > > 2005, and I now get stuck at the �redirecting� page. This is the typical > > > > symptom you get if you haven�t set your user agent correctly, however I > > > > have mine set to > > > > > > > > Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020530 > > > > > > > > (This is not the same string as I was using previously - but that one > > > > didn�t work either.) Perhaps there is another user agent string that I > > > > should be using? > > > > > > > > Can anyone let me know if it still works for them, or have StGeorge been > > > > less than saintly and changed their site again to block Linux more > > > > effectively? > > > > > > > > I�ve got Mozilla 1.7.3-0.2.0 (from Fedora Core 2) and Blackdown Java > > > > 1.4.2-01 installed. > > > > > > > > Thanks for any help, > > > > Ben Stanley. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > Brought to you by a penguin, a gnu and a camel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
