238872 - leominstercu.com - Calculators only work with "version 6 or higher" browsers (blocks all modern Gecko browsers)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Description

[bugz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040322 Firefox/0.8.0+ (daihard: XFT+GTK2; opt. for P4/SSE-2)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040322 Firefox/0.8.0+ (daihard: XFT+GTK2; opt. for P4/SSE-2)

The site's rate calculators only work with "Netscape/IE6."

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.click on any of the "calculators" on the right menu.


Actual Results:  
Window with the following text:
 "This calculator will not work with your current browser.
You need to use Netscape/Internet Explorer 6.0 or above."

Expected Results:  
Allowed access to calculator.

Comment 1

[Andy.J.S]

this is a server side check (via http_user_agent) and can only be solved by the
webmaster modifying their code or by using a 3rd party extension to fake the
browsers identity

Comment 2

[Neil Parks]

What exactly are we claiming to be version 5.0 of?  Can we really blame web
designers for thinking that 5.0 is older than 6.x?  I think it is high time to
change the default UA.

Comment 3

[Jeremy Hannon]

No.  We report as Mozilla/5.0 .  IE6 reports as Mozilla/4.0 .  It was an old
technique to assume that the Mozilla number was the version number if the
broswer was Netscape.

Unfortunately, this hasn't worked since Netscape 6.0

Comment 4

[Neil Parks]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Unfortunately, this hasn't worked since Netscape 6.0

That's exactly why it should be changed.

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

This absolutely still happens. Has anyone contacted the site to tell them they're living in the 1990s? Netscape 6 has been dead for ages.

Comment 6

[Karl Dubost💡 :karlcow]

The site has changed. There are no more calculators.