141277 - packardbell.co.uk - rejects Mozilla as an "incorrect browser"

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect, P1)

Description

[Peter Ford]

Pasted from the site:

  Packard Bell - Incorrect Browser    To have access to the Packard
  Bell website, you need one of the following browsers:

  Internet Explorer 4 - Downloadable at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
  Internet Explorer 5x - Downloadable at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/
  Netscape 4x - Downloadable at http://www.netscape.com/download/

Comment 1

[Brant Gurganus]

Confirmed
2002042803/WinXP

Also, the denial page is bad itself since it has a link to index.asp which
redirects back to the denial page.

Comment 2

[Peter Ford]

The site now lets Mozilla in, at least.  A quick check seems to show that in
fact most of the site is accessible.  There are still some unavailable pages though.

For example, the page <http://www.packardbell.co.uk/products/node309.asp> has in
the bottom right corner a link to "Find your nearest store"
<http://www.packardbell.co.uk/products/node275.asp>, which redirects to the
"Incorrect browser" page at <http://www.packardbell.co.uk/cross/node451.asp>.

Comment 3

[Kai Lahmann (is there, where MNG is)]

Peter: that's also gone - but if you go directly to the deny-page, there's no
NN6 listed as being supported - hm

Comment 4

[Ian Neal]

UK Site -> Europe West

Now comes up with the following popup.

The Packard Bell website has been optimised for the most commonly used browsers.

The browser you are using may affect your use of this site.

Click here to go back to the Packard Bell website.

Comment 5

[Frederic Bezies]

Site can be used, with tech evangelism sidebar.

Contact page is available, cheating on User Agent.

Comment 6

[Mathieu Pillard [:mat]]

Frederic : is there any problem with the site when viewing it with the ua spoofed ?

Comment 7

[piers]

Not seeing any of the problems listed in the comments above, WFM, with 20030216 - 
can anyone confirm?

Comment 8

[Ian Neal]

If you have pop-ups switched on you still get the window as per comment 4

Comment 9

[piers]

Ok my mistake. This skin doesn't have a blocked popup icon....

Comment 10

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 11

[Marek Stępień [:marcoos, inactive]]

Currently no problems on this site using Mozilla 1.5a/LinuxPPC.

Comment 12

[Ian Neal]

Marking as WFM - using 2003082804 on Win XP SP1