On 08/10/2005, at 5:04 AM, Peter Hinchliffewrote:
Hi All
I've been trying to get myself set up with a Paypal account so as
to buy on
ebay but each time I go to try and 'Setup' while on the paypal
site, I end
with a virtually empty screen. Have tried about 5 times now.
I'm using OS 9.2 and for the Internet, IE 5.1.6.
The address where it all stops at is :
https://www.paypal.com/au/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_registration-run
Hi Denise,
I use Safari and OS X 10.3.9 and got the following message from the
page you
gave:
We are sorry this page cannot be displayed. To access it, please
complete
the following steps :
<snip></snip>
Hmm... I just went to the page using Safari 2.0.1 in Tiger and it
loaded fine.
So I'm running Safari 1.3.1 in 10.3.9, patched to date and I get a null
loading with a javascript dialogue telling me that the security
certification is unsafe.
Furthermore, I went yesterday to upgrade Mactracker and found the same
behaviour with their PayPal donation link.
The other browsers do better.
A check in Camino ( the latest stable release) give no certificate
problems and takes me to the sign-up page.
In Firefox, it will load into the PayPal site but returns the PayPal
error page - message 3014 - with IE6 instructions and directions for
other browser to go and "help" themsevles.
Looks like the same silly Safari behaviour that was going on a few
months ago - and was fixed with one of the security upgrades. At
least the Firefox routine gets you into PayPal.
As a side note, because I help a few friends out with Win machines, you
will have seen that BigPond has dropped support for IE versions pre IE6
(it puts it more dishonestly as that it no longer supports Win98 but
the fact is that IE6 breaks Win98 and BigPond won't support IE5 - hence
etc etc). From a bit of looking around, it seems that the big net
presences, like eBay and BT and Telstra are all giving up on the
security maze and concentrating on getting users on to IE6. There are
a lot more users with perfectly safe basic home systems that are
getting pushed into upgrading into the jungle of XP internet utilities.
I'm very pleased I am using OS X.
Nancy M
