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[Jason Watson]

I tried the suggestion of using the User Agent setting in Konqueror to 
change the ID string that it sends out.  I changed it to look like IE 5.5 
and msn.com came up.  I guess non-microsoft browser users will have to 
resort to this trickery until we can comply with the Internet/Microsoft 
'standards'.

Jason Watson
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From: "Tim Schmidt" <computer_holic@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: MSN
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I just tried Mozilla again, and it still doesn't work.  The register's
(www.theregister.co.uk) stats seem to suggest that no linux browsers can
view MSN, and several browsers for Windows (Mozilla, Opera) can't.  I wonder
if the word 'Linux' is keyed in on or if it's just everything but 'IE'
Anyone want to find out?

See if a browser listed as IE, but running on Linux can see the site...
Also, see if a non-IE browser that works on Windows (?) will work if listed
as being run on Linux.  I'd do it, but I don't have a browser loaded that
allows for the modification of identification strings.

--tim


>From: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
>Reply-To: blp@cs.stanford.edu
>To: <linux-user@egr.msu.edu>
>Subject: Re: MSN
>Date: 26 Oct 2001 10:22:26 -0700
>
>"Jason Green" <greenja6@msu.edu> writes:
>
> > Apparently, Micorosoft has backed off on the string
> > identification.
>
>This is untrue.  I just tried Lynx, w3m, and links, and all three
>give a lame "Browser Upgrade Required" message.
>
>(I didn't try any other browsers.)
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