383767 - myspace.com - Camino cannot edit existing posts in MySpace blogs

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 Camino/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en; rv:1.8.1.4) Gecko/20070509 Camino/1.5

Myspace blog message:

(Camino message)

The page at http://blog.myspace.com says:
Blog advanced editor can't run on your current browser/OS. Hit 'OK' to change to plain text blog editor.

Although Camino has always displayed the above message, I used to be able to edit my blog by choosing "cancel".  In Camino 1.5, I can no longer successfully post and edit to my blog.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to your MySpace Blog account
2. Choose "Edit"  (Here you have to choose cancel in order to edit which is also annoying but at least it was a work-around.)
3. Edit blog.  When you get to the final "Post" step, you get an error message.
Actual Results:  
You cannot successfully edit your MySpace blog

Expected Results:  
The blog should "post"

It would be nice if Camino worked with MySpace blogging smoothly and as expected.  Thank you.

Comment 1

[Stuart Morgan]

If you spoof as Firefox with http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/user-agent does it work correctly? There may be a legitimate editor bug here that's causing them to block us, but it's at least as likely that it's just bad sniffing on their end.

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

WFM using Camino 1.5, following the above steps.

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Comment 3

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

I'm pretty sure this is just bad sniffing of some sort. I get the same warning, by the way, when spoofing as Firefox using UserAgent.

You can also use plain-text mode by clicking "OK" in the warning just fine.

http://blog.myspace.com/164141129

for instance.

Comment 4

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(In reply to comment #1)
> If you spoof as Firefox with http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/user-agent does it
> work correctly? There may be a legitimate editor bug here that's causing them
> to block us, but it's at least as likely that it's just bad sniffing on their
> end.
> 

What works for you?  By WFM, do you mean that you were able to smoothly edit and post?  As I stated, even with Camino 1.0, I had to employ the work-around.  With 1.5. I could edit (clumsily and by applying the work-around), but I could not post.

And were you posting a new blog or editing an already created blog?  Thanks

Comment 5

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Those posts were all created from scratch.

If I go back to *edit* any of them, it doesn't seem to matter whether I spoof or not -- it simply doesn't work, and it's probably because MySpace is doing more in-depth browser checking than simple user-agent detection.

Comment 6

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Since we're fairly certain this isn't a bug in Camino, I'm going to kick this over to TE so that we can put some pressure on MySpace to quit their craptastic browser sniffing.

Comment 7

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Fixing summary.

Comment 8

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

INCOMPLETE due to lack of activity since the end of 2009.

If someone is willing to investigate the issues raised in this bug to determine whether they still exist, *and* work with the site in question to fix any existing issues, please feel free to re-open and assign to yourself.

Sorry for the bugspam; filter on "NO MORE PRE-2010 TE BUGS" to remove.