Closed Bug 665573 Opened 13 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Zimbra mail client sniffing specifically for "Firefox" rather than "Gecko"

Categories

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

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

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: webmaster, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: n/a

It's been explained to them many times, but they're seemingly not getting it.
Many colleges use this and as a result it makes it difficult to log in without spoofing my useragent.  

I'm hoping someone here could explain a bit more clearly to them as they're not understanding it from me apparently.

Reproducible: Always
It's pretty clear the guy responding in the URL given here has no clue what the difference between a browser and a rendering engine is. These folks need a serious clue-by-four.
Blocks: geckoisgecko
OS: Other → All
Hardware: x86 → All
Summary: Mainstream mail client sniffing firefox and not gecko and not getting difference → Zimbra mail client sniffing specifically for "Firefox" rather than "Gecko"
Has there been any progress here? Also, I thought Zimbra was open source, is there a chance to just submit a patch?
AFAIK, this is "fixed" on our end by adding "Firefox" to the SeaMonkey UA string. Closing bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Product: Tech Evangelism → Tech Evangelism Graveyard
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