On 11/25/2010 12:40 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > On 11/25/10 12:10 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: >> "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <[email protected]> wrote : ... >> 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 doubt it is a sniffing issue: http://www.webshots.com/pro/ works for me with: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.16) Gecko/20101125 Lightning/1.0b1 SeaMonkey/2.0.11 _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
