Closed Bug 309827 Opened 19 years ago Closed 11 years ago

blessing.com.mx - user agent blocking

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: Spanish, defect)

Product:
Tech Evangelism Graveyard
Component:
Spanish
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: ballinas1, 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:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

In the page at http://www.blessing.com.mx we get a message which says we are
using an old explorer version, it works fine with Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 SP1.
This message is displayed in spanish language.
There is a link which, when clicked, displays an scaled version of the home page

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Enter www.blessing.com.mx site
2.You will see an error page, with white background, click the "aquí" link
3.You will get a page in scaled size

Actual Results:  
error page in spanish language

Expected Results:  
show the home page directly, test it using Microsoft internet explorer
Assignee: nobody → spanish
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: JavaScript Console → Spanish
Ever confirmed: true
OS: Windows XP → All
Product: Firefox → Tech Evangelism
QA Contact: javascript.console → spanish
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: we get a page which tell us we need a more newer explorer version → blessing.com.mx - user agent blocking
The site is blocking you, there isn't much Firefox can do. You can likely use an
extension such as User Agent Switcher
(http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=156) to get past the blocking.
(In reply to comment #0)
don't bother trying to get around to shabby useragent detection script, the
content of the site will only display in a microsoft browser:

<html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml"
xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office"
xmlns:p="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:powerpoint"
xmlns:oa="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:activation"
...

All you can do is notify the site designers that they are not being nice to
non-IE users.
Domain looks like it's gone. FIXED?
Yep, domain is gone.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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