Closed Bug 210374 Opened 21 years ago Closed 21 years ago

Site claims to be IE only

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English Other
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: diego, Assigned: diego)

References

(
URL
)

Details

Go to the URL with Mozilla, you get redirected to

http://www.online-exams.com/netscape.html

which says

  We're sorry -- this site has been built to accomodate Microsoft Internet
  Explorer, as approximately 96% of our customers use this browser. Please
  download Internet Explorer from the Microsoft site to continue.

  Thank you.

The browser detection works even after i put

user_pref("general.useragent.override", "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;
Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90)")

into user.js.  Opera is not affected, unless you force it to identify as Mozilla
5.0.

I will try to contact these guys and see if I can make them change their policy.
 The site works fine in Mozilla if you use something other than the home page to
start surfing.
Webmaster contacted, let us hope they respond and maybe even act.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Aug
Webmaster contacted, I've been in discussions with a person from management (I
believe) and I may have succeeded in convincing them to change their browser
sniffing routine to block Netscape 4 and below only.
Still no change to site - Mozilla 1.6b and Firebird 0.7 both receive the same
message as in comment #1.

The redirect only happens at the site entrance, and the contact web page
(http://www.online-exams.com/top_nav/contact/contact.asp) lists
"webmaster@online-exams.com" as the webmaster contact.
Bad news, I contacted the site again, they will not change their code, even
though I handed them the one line solution on a plate :-(  ---> WONTFIX
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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