287527 - expedia.com - blocks Epiphany but not Firefox

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Steps to reproduce:
1.  Go to <http://www.expedia.com/>.
2.  Click "Search" (with or without valid data in the other fields).

What should happen:
*   "Please help us with a little more information".

What actually happens:
*   "Unfortunately, we do not support the browser you are currently using. For
    best results, we suggest that you use Microsoft Internet Explorer version
    6.0 or later or Netscape Navigator version 6.1 or later."

Problem occurs with:
*   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050315
    Epiphany/1.6.0 (Ubuntu) (Ubuntu package 1.0.1) 

Problem does not occur with:
*   Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-GB; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050315 Firefox/1.0 
    (Ubuntu package 1.0.1)

I expect the summary to this bug will eventually become "Expedia should allow
Gecko in general, not just Netscape/Firefox".

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Conforming summary to TFM item 10 at 
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/tech-evangelism/site/procedures.html#file-new

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Matthew, do you still see this problem? I just tried with Camino, which in theory should be equally unsupported, and it worked OK. I suspect Expedia probably fixed their site.

Comment 3

[Adam Stevenson [:adamopenweb]]

Seems to work OK now. I spoofed UA and the site works. Closing.