297917 - PassAlong.com - sniffs for "Firefox", rejects non-Firefox Gecko browsers

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Rich DeRuiter]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

Attempting to enter www.passalong.com gets one redirected to
http://www.passalong.com/Music/browser.htm and displays message " The website
you are trying to access can only be viewed using Internet Explorer Version 5.5
or above" (with a link to download IE). No other navigation is possible with FF.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enter www.passalong.com in the Firefox navigate bar
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Navigation begins but redirects to http://www.passalong.com/Music/browser.htm,
with the message displayed above (in "Details"). No other navigation on the site
is permitted, not even by manually inserting a site URL (by copy/paste) as seen
in IE.

Expected Results:  
I would expect to be able to navigate the site as in IE.
(The problem is with the site, not with FF, as far as I can tell.)

N/A (I did a search to see if this has been reported before and couldn't find
anything. Sorry if I'm repeating a known problem.)

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

It's been redesigned somewhat so that Firefox works now, but other browsers get redirected to

http://www.passalong.com/Music/browser.aspx

Confirming.

Comment 3

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Site doesn't exist, we get a parked domain. Closing.