430149 - virginmoneyus.com - missing "Login" button in non-Firefox Gecko browsers

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

The Login button (grey, located to the right of "How It Works" in the main navigation across the top) appears in Firefox, but not in any other Gecko browser (including Minefield) due to busted browser sniffing.

Clicking the Login button takes you to

https://www.virginmoneyus.com/LoginRegister/tabid/272/Default.aspx

which, if entered directly from a non-Firefox browser, appears to work fine. I was able to register a test account without any problems in Camino trunk with the "like Firefox" portion of the UA string removed, and the secure portions of the site appear (at first glance) to be identical in both Camino and Firefox once you're logged in.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Sniffing appears to be in at least two JS files:

http://www.virginmoneyus.com/js/hbx.js
http://www.virginmoneyus.com/ScriptResource.axd?d=lRa0Zna2GIPBsg7jbl5bKDGXnL52e17jaqLVgS_Fhg2lUGK5-FwfPKGTYm4A-YjF0&t=633271085736250000

but doesn't fully explain why the login button fails to appear (or why the *exact* Firefox 2 UA string must be spoofed in order to get this to work in Camino). I suspect there's some server-side sniffing going on that we can't see.

Comment 2

[Zoltan Jakab]

The domain has been moved and it looks like the bug doesn't exist on the new site. Closing.