242152 - budlight.com - Bud Light's 'Making Faces' allows Netscape 7 but blocks Mozilla

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Damian Yerrick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316

Netscape 7 users can get into web pages created by Bud Light's Making Faces
web application, but Mozilla suite users can't.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive a link to a Bud Light Making Faces e-card.
2. Follow that link.  That is, click here:
http://veepers02.budlight.com/service/RetrieveCard?id=5974E5EC-99EB-11D8-BF16-B3EE4054966E

Actual Results:  
 The browser/system configuration you are currently using is not supported by
this application.

This application currently supports the following browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 (or higher) on Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP
Netscape 7 (or higher) on Windows 98/NT/2000/ME/XP
Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.2 (and higher) on Mac OS X

Expected Results:  
E-card appears.

Could it be a sniffing problem, where it looks for "Netscape" rather than
"Gecko"? Or is it a plug-in that commercial Netscape builds installed but
Mozilla doesn't?

Comment 1

[Bob Clary [:bc] (inactive)]

http://veepers02.budlight.com/common/javascript/Pulse.WebService.js

function _isBrowserSupported is the offending code.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.