187789 - professor.co.il - site blocks mozilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Hebrew, defect)

Description

[Tsahi Asher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; he-IL; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826

when accessing the site, mozilla is redirected to
http://professor.co.il/site/homepage_4netscape.asp, saying "professor site was
programed in compliance and ralative to Internet Explorer 5 and above. you have
another browser!..." etc., and a link to download IE.

site is a collection of exams and academic works for students in universities
and colleges, as well as other services for students. some of the services are
charged.

contact info:
phone: [phone] (subject to change)
fax: [phone]
email: [e-mail]
snail mail: 4 Habonim st., Ramat-Gan 52462, Israel.
contact page: http://www.professor.co.il/site/custServices/custServices.asp



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. start mozilla
2. enter "professor.co.il" in the address bar
3. press "enter" (or "return" on non-pc systems)
4. viola

Actual Results:  
rediredted to http://professor.co.il/site/homepage_4netscape.asp

Expected Results:  
site should show the content

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

tech evang june 2003 reorg

Comment 2

[Shoshannah Forbes]

just not I get a re-direct to a 404...
Anyone have contact info for that site, that will work w/o msie (or is anyone
willing to contact them)?

thanks

Comment 3

[Tsahi Asher]

contact info is at the description (fax, phone and email).

Comment 4

[Tsahi Asher]

just noticed, they changed location. new details:
phone: [phone]
fax: [phone]
snail mail: 166 Even Gvirol st., Tel-Aviv 61222 (hey, that's right by my college!)

Comment 5

[Tomer Cohen :tomer]

The actual deny code is at the top of
http://www.professor.co.il/site/functions/js/homepageFunc.js.

By disabling JavaScript, I've found that the main page is a bit messy, with
blocks in the wrong positions. This may require additional work from just
removing the deny code.

Comment 6

[Tsahi Asher]

it appears like the site was re-designed recently, and is now working well, at
least in my NS7.1. reccomend to close bug.

Comment 7

[Tsahi Asher]

the site was reorganized. here's an email i got from it's owner:

hi 
please remove www.professor.co.il from your "mozilla unsupported websites"
i have rebuilt it completely and now it does support mozilla (hurray to me)
 
PS - are you aware that by putting direct links to the unsupporting websites you
are in fact increasing their number of directing links hence the popularity
check by google and such search engines?
 
All the best
Nimrod Lehavi
Lehavi Solutions