On 11/25/10 8:31 PM, David E. Ross wrote: > 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. >
That was the SHA1 hashes, not SH1. -- 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
