David E. Ross wrote:
On 11/25/10 12:10 PM, Jane_Galt wrote:
"Beauregard T. Shagnasty"<[email protected]> wrote :
WLS wrote:
Jane_Galt wrote:
Is Seamonkey considered defunct now?
No.
I cant even get it to work anymore with my subscription of Webshots.
Yet FF and Internet Explorer work with it.
Works fine here. ....
The usual answer is the site is using browser sniffing, and won't
recognize any but 'common' browsers. The JavaScript on their main page
(Jane didn't specify any specific page)
http://www.webshots.com/pro/
looks for "Internet Explorer",
"Firefox", "Safari", "Chrome", "Netscape" (!), "Opera", but not
"SeaMonkey". (Yet another example of author bungle.)
Yeah well it kept me from using my Webshots subscription for almost a month
until I tried other browsers.
Adding the oft-mentioned "NOT Firefox" to the SeaMonkey User Agent
string might help. WLS, have you done this?
Is there something I can do from here? Webshots wont even reply to my angry
emails about denial of service by them.
Read my<http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html> to understand
sniffing and spoofing. Although some of the page is quite technical, I
tried to write this in a way that non-technical individuals can
understand the issues. (There is a very brief definition of spoofing at
<http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html#spoof>.)
Download and install PrefBar from
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67148/>. Use it to
spoof Firefox, but only when trying to view Webshots (or other sites
that have broken sniffing).
I just went to the opening page of the above link and took about 2-3
seconds to load.
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Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net/ mailto:[email protected]
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