201870 - reliable.com: Site needlessly redirects Mozilla users to rude 'Upgrade Now' page

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Dan Tobias]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030130
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030130

For no logical reason, this site's author has decided to send anybody who tries
to use the site with the "wrong" browser to a rude page that tells you to
"upgrade" to one of a list of choices that bizarrely includes the long-obsolete
Netscape 4.x, which is hardly an "upgrade" from Mozilla.

The site also comes up as a completely blank screen if you have JavaScript
turned off.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the URL using any Mozilla-based browser.

Actual Results:  
You got redirected to a clueless "upgrade now" page.

Expected Results:  
Let you get into their darned site.

Bizarrely enough, Opera, set to identify itself honestly, has no problem getting
into the site, since the author didn't bother to try detecting it.

Comment 1

[Christopher Curzio]

This is not a Mozilla bug. This is a problem with the admittedly clueless
webmaster of that site. 

If it's absolutely vital that you use their broken website, change the user
agent that Mozilla sends. Info on how to do that is here:

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html

Comment 2

[Christopher Curzio]

Marking Invalid.

Comment 3

[Dan Tobias]

I filed this bug in the "Tech Evangelism" section, which is, as far as I am
aware, intended for use to point out clueless webmasters needing to be given a
clue.  Why then is it considered "invalid"?

Comment 4

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

Dan you are absolutely correct.  -> REOPEN

Christopher, please do not mark Tech Evangelism bugs invalid. If you have any
questions regarding Tech Evangelism contact me or come to #evangelism on irc.

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

confirm

Comment 6

[Christopher Curzio]

Oops, I neglected to look in what section it was filed. Completely my fault.

My apologies. 

Comment 7

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 8

[Dan Tobias]

The site in question has been redesigned, and no longer redirects Mozilla users
to the rude "upgrade your browser" page.