192413 - launch.yahoo.com - does not support Netscape 6, server-side block

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 121832

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

Description

[Dave Wickham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021231
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021231

http://launch.yahoo.com claims to not support Netscape 6 (error message given
when attempting to listen to music via the radio section).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://launch.yahoo.com
2. Select "browse all radio stations"
3. Select a radio station
4. Observe error message

Actual Results:  
The following error is displayed: 
"Sorry, we do not support Netscape version 6."

Expected Results:  
As the test sound works with a spoofed referrer, Mozilla should be allowed in -
there may be some broken scripts inside to control Windows Media Player.

The test sound, at least, works with a spoofed referrer on my setup.

Comment 1

[Frankie]

GET
/radio/player/default.asp?clientID=1&clientStationID=0&p=1&m=302&d=0&linkTarget=LaunchRadioTarget
HTTP/1.1
Host: launchcast.launch.yahoo.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a)
Gecko/20030306
[remainder of request deleted for brevity]


HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2003 03:12:56 GMT
Pragma: No-Cache
cache-control: private
Location:
/radio/player/error.asp?errorID=7&referer=http://launch.yahoo.com/launchcast/stations/default.asp&appmode=undefined&clientID=1&logBit=1&debugText=Browser%20version%20is%205&clientStationID=0
Content-Length: 311
Content-Type: text/html
Expires: Sat, 08 Mar 2003 
03:10:56 GMT
Cache-control: no-cache

Comment 2

[Susie Wyshak]

Yahoo will not be fixing this; it is dependent on windows media player being
scriptable. Marking won't fix.

Comment 3

[Bill Mason]

*** Bug 218946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

*** Bug 219915 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Reopening to mark as a dup of bug 121832.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121832 ***