On 7/12/2017 11:16 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Ed Mullen wrote:
>> On 7/11/17 at 11:18 PM, Paul B. Gallagher's prodigious digits fired
>> off with great aplomb:
>>> Hank wrote:
>>>
>>>> I use http://speedtest.xfinity.com/ and it works. If I add www.
>>>> before speedtest it is blocked.
>>>
>>> I see that your user agent does not contain a reference to
>>> SeaMonkey:
>>>
>>> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0)
>>> Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0
>>>
>>> Anyone here not using or spoofing Firefox able to get through, or
>>> is that the key?
>>>
>>
>> I did have "advertise FF" turned on. I turned it off and still have
>> no trouble with Xfinity.
>>
>> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101
>> SeaMonkey/2.51
>
> With SeaMonkey 2.46, I get an error with "Advertise Firefox
> compatibility" on (which adds "Firefox/49.0" to the UA string). With
> "Advertise Firefox compatibility" off (so it just reports SeaMonkey)
> Ed's results are displayed.
>
> You have a newer version of SeaMonkey, which will include a newer
> version of Firefox in the UA string with "Advertise Firefox" enabled.
> I'd guess that, with "Advertise Firefox" on, speedtest.xfinity.com finds
> the Firefox part of the string and uses that to check if it's a recent
> version, while without it either goes by the SeaMonkey version or (if it
> doesn't recognise SeaMonkey at all) falls back to allowing the page to
> be shown.
>
> There do seem to be a number of sites turning up lately which work with
> SeaMonkey WITHOUT "Advertise Firefox compatibility", but not WITH it...!
>
With "Advertise Firefox compatibility", the user agent (UA) string is
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46
Some Web sites reject my browser with that, not because of the
"Firefox/49.0 but because of the "SeaMonkey/2.46".
I generally run with "Advertise Firefox compatibility" disabled. If
that causes a problem, I use PrefBar's "User Agent" to have the UA string
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101
SeaMonkey/2.46, NOT Firefox/49.0
If that does not work, I user PrefBar to get
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/53.0
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