Re: [Sheflug] British Gas

[Adam Funk <a.funk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 04/10/12 14:12, Geoff Schrecker wrote:
> On 4 October 2012 14:09, Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thursday 04 October 2012 14:01:00 Robin Wood wrote:
>>> If it is an active X thing then it won't work but if it is just
>>> checking the UA then look for a firefox plugin called UA Switcher,
>>> there may be a version for Chrome but haven't looked. It comes with
>>> sample strings for various versions of IE.
>>
>> Great.  That fixed it.  Thanks very much :)
>>
> 
> So WTF was it checking you were running IE when other browsers work
> fine. Could they just not be bothered to test it on other platforms?

This used to be a common problem with the same fix (spoof the user-agent
string & the site just works anyway), but I haven't seen it for a few
years.  I'd assumed that particular kind of boneheadedness had gone away!


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