282677 - mercatoelettrico.org - Site blocks Mozilla/Netscape/Opera (browser sniffing)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Italian, defect)

Description

[Devoti Paolo]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050214
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050214

Opening url with Mozilla goes to a 404 page while with IE the site is accessible.
Maybe it's a pure evang issue, I can't tell.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.open url
Actual Results:  
404 page

Expected Results:  
home page

Comment 1

[OstGote!]

The link opens http://www.mercatoelettrico.org/Default.htm which contains the
following script, executed onload of body tag.

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function GetBrowser()
{
  var style;
  var version=parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(0,1));
  if (navigator.appName == "Opera")
  {
    window.location="PostInfo.html" ;
  }
  else
  {
    if (navigator.appName == "Netscape")
    {
      window.location="PostInfo.html" ;
    }
    else
    {    
      if (navigator.browserLanguage== "it")
      {
        window.location="GmewebItaliano/Default.aspx";
      }
      else
      {
        window.location="GmeWebInglese/Default.aspx";
      }
    }  
  }  
}
</SCRIPT>


So the all Mozilla/NS/Opera browsers are redirected to
http://www.mercatoelettrico.org/PostInfo.html. But this page does not exist, so
you only see a 404 error page.

So clearly a tech evang bug. Please inform the webmaster about this.

Real main page is
http://www.mercatoelettrico.org/GmewebItaliano/Default.aspx (it)
http://www.mercatoelettrico.org/GmeWebInglese/Default.aspx (en)

Comment 2

[Lorenzo Simionato]

Te letter sended.

Comment 3

[Lorenzo Simionato]

No response to TE letter.

Comment 4

[Riccardo Cretti]

Tried to open the site with Firefox 2.0.0.1 and it works fine (only shows a warning saying it works better with IE, but works).

Comment 5

[Lorenzo Simionato]

Yes, the site has changed and now the problem is gone with the old version.
Marked as FIXED then.