Closed Bug 294876 Opened 20 years ago Closed 17 years ago

hubbellcatalog.com deliberately blocks non-IE browsers

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
English US
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: rcsheets, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4

The www.hubbellcatalog.com site seems to employ some sort of browser detection
which shows the following error message when the site is viewed with Firefox:

You must use Internet Explorer to view this site.

Please click here for a free download of the latest version of Internet Explorer.

Thank you.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. go to www.hubbellcatalog.com
Actual Results:  
Error message

Expected Results:  
I would hope to see the site

Using User Agent Switcher to appear as IE6 makes the page display properly.
Browsing the site for a few minutes I couldn't find any issues using the site
with Firefox.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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