213456 - Cruiserweight.com blocks Mozilla users (after flash intro page)

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Horak]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 StumbleUpon/1.73
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030516 Mozilla Firebird/0.6

The website http://www.cruiserweight.com/ blocks access to Mozilla users after
the splash screen. User Agent spoofing (setting string to Internet
Explorer/Windows XP) didn't allow access either. If you are using Mozilla
Firebird you'll be redirected to http://www.cruiserweight.com/sorry.html.

There is a small (yet inconvenient) workaround, though. If you navigate directly
to http://www.cruiserweight.com/news2.html, there is no redirection to the
'sorry' page.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.cruiserweight.com/.
2. Skip flash intro.

Actual Results:  
Redirected to http://www.cruiserweight.com/sorry.html.

Expected Results:  
The site should've allowed access to Mozilla users. Mainly because it can be
viewed fine if the workaround mentioned above is used.

Comment 1

[Aaron Graves]

Doesn't block me out, however after the flash intro it sends me to home.html,
which appears to be a blank page... perhaps someone should notify them of this...

Comment 2

[Aaron Graves]

Never mind, had pop-ups blocked. Seems to let me in, reporter I recommend
updating Mozilla (or Firebird in your case) and see if it still does this. Works
fine in 1.5a as well as Firebird 0.6.1

Comment 3

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

wfm in moz 1.4 on win2k with a moz or fb ua and works in fb from a custom build.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Horak]

Works for me now, as well. Using Mozilla Firebird 0.6.1.

It does seem that this was a browser sniffing issue that the webmaster has since
fixed (after I notified him/her via email of the problem).

Comment 5

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

cool