"David E. Ross" <[email protected]> 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). >
Says it's only for FF? -- - Jane Galt By taxing, borrowing and wasting money that the tax slaves must be forced to pay back, Government does NOT "create jobs", it NEVER HAS. It actually consumes and destroys the wealth that the private sector, which really DOES create jobs, could be using to do so! _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
