[ale] Bellsouth browser stupids

[Jim Popovitch]

Why would you use Firefox on Linux and set user-agent to IE6?  I see BS.com
fine with FF and user-agent:

"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050517 Firefox/1.0.4
(Debian package 1.0.4-2)"

In fact I see most every site fine without over-ridding user-agent, even
turbotax.com now that they wised up.

-Jim P.

--- "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:

> http://www.bellsouth.com/upgradebrowser.html
> 
> While trying to check DSL availability for a client using Firefox on
> Linux with User agent set to IE6, I get the page in the link above.
> 
> In fact, I can't get anything _BUT_ that page when trying to access BS.
> 
> They really don't want to stay in business do they?
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