On 11/25/10 1:27 PM, Phillip Jones wrote: > 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. >
Which link of the 3 I cited? -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
