how to spoof the browser type?

[Robin Laing]

Nifty Hat Mitch wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 01:40:11PM -0500, Marc M wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:23:31 -0800, Vadim <vadim at overture.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Works for me too.
>>> Which URL are you hitting exactly?
>>> -V
>>>
>>> 
>>> Scot L. Harris wrote: 
>>> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 11:13, Marc M wrote: 
>>> Hi, I just visited the lovely user-friendly site myflorida.com where the
>>>job link gives you this message when viewed with mozilla firefox. I want to
>>>be able to alter the mozilla code to fool whatever it is with these dumb
>>>sites. Has anybody out there done such a thing? Thanks Marc **** This
>>>browser is not supported. Supported browsers are: 1) Internet Explorer
>>>version 5.0 SP2 and higher 2) Netscape Navigator version 6.2 and higher ***
>>>Seems to work just fine using firefox or mozilla 1.4. 
> 
> ....
> 
>>https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/ which takes me to 
>>
>>https://peoplefirst.myflorida.com/reject.htm             
>>
>>I see what you mean, though, a lot of pages on that site are not a
>>problem.  I wonder if in their https configuration _only_, they
>>could've forced everything to be either NN or IE (shudder- in the name
>>of security).
> 
> 
> Debugging or spoofing this could take more time than it
> takes to pick up an Linux version of Netscape.
> 
> Download and install Netscape.
> 
> I get the error page you indicate when I attempt to
> open this URL.
> 
>    http://peoplefirst.myflorida.com
> 
> If I use Netscape 7.2 I get the login page just fine.  <<<--- OK
> Download and install Netscape!
> 
> If I look at other pages with Mozilla they are OK so all 
> is not lost.  There seems to be only one place where it fails.
> 
>  https://jobs.myflorida.com/joblist.html?displaymode=-4.10000051
> 
> Also there is apparently a 'SAP' data base involved.
> File a bug with the SAP folks.  Tell them that you do
> not see this problem with PeopleSoft or Oracle ;-).
> 
> 

If the page is designed properly for Netscape, it should work in 
Mozilla.  It is a site related problem that the developer should be 
notified about.

-- 
Robin Laing