did you try changing the user-agent of mozilla and konqurer to ie one and see if it works? does it need active x or the sort?
Ely Levy System group Hebrew University Jerusalem Israel On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Alex Gontmakher wrote: > Hi everybody, > > If anybody of you have tried to access the Discountbank.net web site > (for online account access), you would surely notice that it accepts > connections originated from Internet Explorer only. That's quite a > problem for Linux users - it wouldn't even try to communicate with > Mozilla ;-(. > > I have tried to contact the bank technical support on this issue, and > got a response stating that "Since the Internet Explorer is the mostly > used browser, we don't support any others. In the future the bank will > discuss working with additional browsers". > > Have any of you tried to access that site, or would you like to do it? > It's very convenient, and it's a shame to have a Windows installation > around just for this (and yes, yes, I know about Wine... not working > very well for me unfortunately). > > Now this problem is not specific to Discount bank - there are many > others that not only make the minimal effort to communicate with non-IE > browsers, but specifically go forward and make them IE-only. That's no > way to promote Mozilla in particular and Linux in general!!! > > What we can do is collect some amount of signatures and contact the bank > again, showing that the interest in the site is not from several people > only. And then, we can probably write to something like "Captain > Internet" of Haaretz for more exposure. > > So, if you want to get this site, and probably others, to work with > Mozilla browsers, write me and we'll roll this on! > > Alex > > P.S. Below is the approximate text that I'd like to send to the > webmasters (probably in Hebrew). Comments welcome. > > Dear webmaster of <site name here>! > > We have tried to access your site using the Mozilla browser, and got the > response stating that "The site is designed to work with Internet > Explorer only". Unfortunately, we, as Linux users, are unable to use the > Internet Explorer browser. > > We feel that this situation is unwarranted. The Mozilla browser supports > the Web standards to a level which is not worse, and at times exceeding, > that of Internet Explorer. In addition, due to the recurring security > problems with Microsoft Windows in general, and Internet Explorer in > particular, Mozilla (and other non-IE browsers as well) is actually > *more secure* to use. > > Replying that the majority of users of the site use IE anyway is > incorrect in its nature. Of course non-IE users won't access your site > once they know that it works with IE only. The situation is worsened by > the fact that your site actively disables connections that originate > from Mozilla, thus preventing the Mozilla developers from ever fixing > compatibility problems if such exist. > > This situation is unduly discriminating for the Linux and MacOS users, > and it stifles the competition in the operating systems and in WWW > browsers in Israel. > > We ask you to support other browsers on your site, or at least stop > actively disabling it. > > With respect, > <list of signatures> > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
