277252 - national-lottery.co.uk: cannot go to log-in page, incompatible browser detected. Will not enter any secure pages.

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 226258

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English Other, defect)

Description

[chris.jakins]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041110 Firefox/1.0

The site detects a mozilla browser and prevents the user from entering any
secure page, hence the functionality of the site is totally lost. They simply
redirect the user to an error page. The site suggests other browsers - it seems
to support most other options. After emailing complaints I recieve an generic
automated reply of "use IE please".

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Use firefox
2.Go to www.national-lottery.co.uk
3.click log-in

Actual Results:  
"Incompatible We Browser:
To allow us to give you secure access to this section of The National Lottery
website you must use a PC or Mac running one of the following web browsers:
Internet Explorer 5.01 SP2, 5.2, 5.5 SP2 and 6.
Netscape 7 or AOL 7 and above
You can download the latest version of Internet Explorer from Microsoft here."

Expected Results:  
Should display secure areas of the site and not an error page. This is not
mozilla's fault.

Nothing wrong with firefox. The site prevents access. The only work around is
using IE until the site develops and tests firefox support.

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

Netscape 7.2 is rejected too.

Comment 2

[Patrick]

please search before filling a bug. A simple search [including bugs marked as
dupes] for "national" "lottery" gives some results.

duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 226258 ***