Closed
Bug 276282
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
partylite.com - sniffs for "Firefox", rejects anything without "Firefox" in UA string
Categories
(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
English US
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
People
(Reporter: ramona0770, Unassigned)
References
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Details
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040625 This is the message when trying to access any https:// link at the PartyLite site, using any Gecko browser, i.e., Netscape 7.2, 7.2, Mozilla 1.7.3, 1.7.5, Firefox 1.0, or Thunderbird 1.0: Your browser needs to be Microsoft IE 5.0 or higher. You can download Microsoft IE 5.5 by clicking this link. This is definitely discriminitory to all users of Gecko browsers! I discovered this inaccessibility when trying to help my daughter, who is a Party Lite Representative, access her https pages to enter orders, etc. She uses Mozilla 1.7.3. She had already told me it was impossible, but I thought perhaps she might have been doing something incorrectly. Unfortunately this was not the case. I hope you can work with this site to allow the Gecko browser users access to the secure pages. I did sent them an email on 12/19/04 complaining about the priorization of Internet Explorer for using the secure (https) pages. I have yet to hear anything from the site... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Trying to access the https pages on the site. 2. 3. Actual Results: I was given the message to download Internet explorer with a link for the browser! Expected Results: Allowed access to the https pages.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new Reporter, when you file a TE bug, please follow the reporting guidelines.
Summary: The "secure"PartyLite site links do not work unless you use Internet Explorer, and plainly states this is so. → partylite.com - The "secure" site links do not work unless you use Internet Explorer, and plainly states this is so.
Comment 2•16 years ago
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They no longer reject non-IE browsers, but they're being pretty stupid about how they detect non-IE browsers: function CheckBrowser() { //If win, must be IE, else Firefox if(GetOS()) { if (!CheckForIE()) { GetBrowserPage(); } } else { if (!CheckForFirefox()) { GetBrowserPage(); } } } //end func and function CheckForFirefox() { //check for firefox var rtnVal = true; try { var x = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox"); if (x == -1) { rtnVal = false; } } catch(e){ rtnVal = false; } return rtnVal; }
Blocks: geckoisgecko
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows 98 → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: partylite.com - The "secure" site links do not work unless you use Internet Explorer, and plainly states this is so. → partylite.com - sniffs for "Firefox", rejects anything without "Firefox" in UA string
Comment 3•13 years ago
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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.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Updated•9 years ago
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Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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