On 11/25/10 12:10 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: > "Beauregard T. Shagnasty" <a.nony.m...@example.invalid> wrote : > >> WLS wrote: >> >>> Jane_Galt wrote: >>>> Is Seamonkey considered defunct now? >> >> No. >> >>>> I cant even get it to work anymore with my subscription of Webshots. >>>> Yet FF and Internet Explorer work with it. >>> >>> Works fine here. .... >> >> The usual answer is the site is using browser sniffing, and won't >> recognize any but 'common' browsers. The JavaScript on their main page >> (Jane didn't specify any specific page) > > http://www.webshots.com/pro/ > >> looks for "Internet Explorer", >> "Firefox", "Safari", "Chrome", "Netscape" (!), "Opera", but not >> "SeaMonkey". (Yet another example of author bungle.) > > Yeah well it kept me from using my Webshots subscription for almost a month > until I tried other browsers. > >> Adding the oft-mentioned "NOT Firefox" to the SeaMonkey User Agent >> string might help. WLS, have you done this? >> > > Is there something I can do from here? Webshots wont even reply to my angry > emails about denial of service by them. > >
Read my <http://www.rossde.com/internet/sniffing.html> to understand sniffing and spoofing. Although some of the page is quite technical, I tried to write this in a way that non-technical individuals can understand the issues. (There is a very brief definition of spoofing at <http://www.rossde.com/internet/intr_gloss.html#spoof>.) Download and install PrefBar from <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67148/>. Use it to spoof Firefox, but only when trying to view Webshots (or other sites that have broken sniffing). -- David E. Ross <http://www.rossde.com/> On occasion, I might filter and ignore all newsgroup messages posted through GoogleGroups via Google's G2/1.0 user agent because of spam from that source. _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
