397205 - browser detect throws out any but IE

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Rick]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.7) Gecko/20070914 Firefox/2.0.0.7
Build Identifier: firefox 2.0.0.7

These .. umm ... gentlemen at gammasite.com seem to be living it the dark ages.  At least the last century.  They have a simple browser detect that throws out any browser that isn't IE.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open Firefox
2.type www.gammasite.com in the address box
3.
Actual Results:  
Get an nicely formatted error page .. "Unsupported browser"

Expected Results:  
I expected to see their homepage.

Tried to contact them using their contact form.  It failed.  The perl script referred to in the form is not on the (israeli??) site.  The company is probably dead. As they should be.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Yep, this definitely happens (in both Camino trunk and Firefox 2, along with Safari 3), and nope, it definitely shouldn't.

I'd offer their whois record as possible contact information, but I can't seem to get their whois server to respond.

Comment 2

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

404
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux i686; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0