173432 - carrefour-multimedia.com - bad sniffing

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: French, defect, P1)

Description

[Fabrice Bonny]

This page asks for IE 5 or Netscape 6.

Contact :  [e-mail]

Comment 1

[Bill Mason]

Verified in build 2002100508 PC/Win98.

Their browser detection
http://www.carrefour-multimedia.com/Includes/js/versionning.js is looking for
'Netscape' in the UA string to pick out Netscape 6+.

Comment 2

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

yup, they need to sniff better.
a way to to this is to detect gecko instead :
http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2002/browser-detection/

Comment 3

[Gilles Durys]

*** Bug 174509 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Fabrice Bonny]

Just mailed to the webmaster. Wait and see.

Comment 5

[Fabrice Bonny]

They are open and ready to add a patch. I'm trying to make one.
Note: this bug is followed by the AFUL (french association for free software) too.

Comment 6

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc (PTO until April 26)]

Quote from bug 111001 :


"The software used on the server side is written by a french company, Suadela.
getting in touch with them (namely Fred).
...
Got in touch with Suadela. The tech contact is Frederic de Badereau
<[e-mail]>
Fred knows about this bugzilla bug report and will have a look."

Perhaps this person should be contacted too

Comment 7

[Fabrice Bonny]

Note that the webmaster answered me that they are thinking to a new version and
aware of the problem. Two ways to fix are better than one.
:-)

They have understood that the AFUL or the evangelists can help too.

Comment 8

[Michel D Hooge]

Problem still not solved...
I will write to the webmaster

Comment 9

[Michel D Hooge]

*sigh*
Got an answer from the "customer support" saying that they will do nothing. But
(I guess) the answer was made from someone who does not understand the
problem... It is not even written in good french:

"Nous faisons suite à votre mail de ce jour concernant le navigateur Modzilla
enpêchant la visite de notre site www.carrefourmultimedia.com. 

Nous sommes conscients du manque à gagner que cela peut impliquer, mais il n'est
toujours prévu à ce jour de permettre les utilisateurs de Modzilla de visiter
notre site."

Let's wait for a technical answer from the webmaster.

Comment 10

[Colin Leroy]

Attachment: patch

this patch (although Bad: sniffs name too) against 
wget http://www.carrefour-multimedia.com/Includes/js/versionning.js
would at least work for all Mozilla/5.0 compatible browsers and take less than
2 minutes to apply.

the site works fine when accessed directly from
http://www.carrefour-multimedia.com/data/fr/accueil/index.asp

Comment 11

[Fabrice Bonny]

Mail after mail, I'm in relation with the internet responsable of the group. A
new site is preparing and will support more browsers. But I wil send the patch
to him, of course.

Comment 12

[Brant Gurganus]

assigning to Fabrice since he/she is doing the contacting.  accept the
assignment if this is okay with you.

Comment 13

[Fabrice Bonny]

(he, please :-) )
That's ok and the patch is gone.

Comment 14

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

->fr

Comment 15

[Olivier Cahagne]

wfm FF 20040213 Win2k
-> Fixed