You'd have to have a browser that lets you set the description manually
so that it could "lie" to the server. I've heard of such a browser or a
program that intercepted and altered such headers, but I think that was
back when I used (should it be called suffering through instead?)
Windows.
But then on top of that, you have to hope that DialPad didn't write
their Java using MS-J++. We all know how portable that PoS is.
Vic wrote:
>
> Then is there any way to fool it into thinking
> that the user is using windows?
>
> On Fri, 09 Jun 2000, Digital Wokan wrote:
> > Lucky for you, there are web developers here. :)
> > It isn't a problem with your OS, it's a problem with DialPad.com. They
> > have their webserver detect what kind of browser/OS is connecting to
> > their server and send an "appropriate" message. So they see you are
> > using Netscape, which is fine, but it's running on Linux, which THEY do
> > not support. (Yet another company that doesn't feed the penguin.)
> > DialPad uses Java for their program, so what should be a painless port
> > to Linux (Java shouldn't have to be "ported". Thank Monoposoft for that
> > one.) ends up taking them enough time that either they haven't gotten to
> > it or have decided that us Linux users aren't worth their advertising
> > dollar.
> > Perhaps there are other such phone for free systems out there who do
> > support the penguin.
> >
> > Vic wrote:
> > >
> > > When I went to a web page, Netscape gave me this
> > > error linux elf not supported, I can't sdiscfipbe it
> > > good so here is a link so I don't post a little
> > > gif to the list.
> > >
> > > http://kittypuss.dyndns.org/error.gif
> > >
> > > I HATE that trash! FAQ what FAQ probably one
> > > that either does not exist or is full of lies and
> > > trash that don't work,
> > > *************************I really must get to*********************
> > > ************this web page I HAVE to use dialpad to contact***********
> > > ************someone, the phone here won't reach that number**********
> > > **********************pleasepleasepleaseplease help me.************
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Digital Wokan
Tribal mage of the electronics age
Guerilla Linux Warrior
