On 11/25/10 5:30 PM, Jane_Galt wrote: > "David E. Ross" <nob...@nowhere.invalid> wrote : > >> 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). >> > > Says it's only for FF? > >
Hmm. I previously downloaded the PrefBar .xpi file from <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/67148/> instead of installing directly from the Web page. (I do this because I want to archive all software that I install on my PC.) I then used SeaMonkey's Add-On Manager to install PrefBar without any problems. I just now downloaded the PrefBar .xpi files from both the Firefox and SeaMonkey pages within addons.mozilla.org. Comparing the SH1 hashes of both, they are the same. -- 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
