106989 - MSN.COM will not display with Mozilla

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 104733

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[bclinger]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011026
BuildID:    2001102603

MSN.COM blocks this browser with the following message:
Attention: Web Browser Upgrade Required to View MSN.com

If you are seeing this page, we have detected that the browser that you are
using will not render MSN.com correctly. Additionally, you'll see the most
advanced functionality of MSN.com only with the latest version of Microsoft
Internet Explorer or MSN Explorer. If you wish to visit MSN.com, please select
the appropriate download link below.

It does not block Netscape 6.1


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.msn.com
2. Watch the screen, drink something
3. The message is then displayed and suggests ya download a Microsoft
   product.

Actual Results:  An annoying response indicating their site does not support
this browser. It works though with Netscape 6.1

Expected Results:  Able to view the MSN.COM site

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

This has been widely commented upon in the computer press and by IT
professionals worldwide today. It is assumed that the code at msn.com is
designed for older browsers since mainly standards compliant browsers are
prevented from entering the site.

However: Microsoft claim that their denial-of-service will be cancelled again on
Thursday. Passing over to evangelism untill then.

Comment 2

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104773 ***

Comment 3

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Oops

Comment 4

[Bradley Baetz (:bbaetz)]

Typo's suck. Dupe of bug 104733

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104733 ***

Comment 5

[R.K.Aa.]

v

Comment 6

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

Moving to English-US since there was no mention of what language
thi sparticular MSN site is in.