Hi Nadav and all!
I set up my Konqueror 3.1 RC5 to identify itself as MSIE for
jobinfo.co.il. I could see everything on the site, and even managed to use
some hyperlinks and do a lot of stuff. Seems to work perfectly to me.
Note that I'm not sure it will operate well on Mozilla. From what I
understood, Konqueror explicitly decided to support some MSIE-specific
extensions, while Mozilla deliberately does not support them.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 06, 2003, Daniel Feiglin wrote about "Re: Home Page Failure":
> > >>Attempting to access www.jobinfo.co.il from Mozilla (and I suspect, any
> > >>Netscape browser) yields the following error:
> > >>
> > >>Microsoft VBScript runtimeerror '800a0005'
>
> By the way, just to show that this has nothing to do with Mozilla and
> everything to do with a bug in their scripts, try:
>
> MO='Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003'
> IE='Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0)'
>
> (these are two strings I pulled off at random from the ivrix.org.il logs)
>
> $ curl -i -s -A $MO http://www.jobinfo.co.il/
> HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error
> ..
> <font face="Arial" size=2>Invalid procedure call or argument: 'mid'</font>
> ..
>
> $ curl -i -s -A $IE http://www.jobinfo.co.il/
> HTTP/1.1 302 Object moved
> ..
> Location: http://www.jobinfo.co.il/Content/Search/Channel_search.asp?ComeFrom=0
>
> So obviously, their server intentionally looks at the user agent string,
> tries to do something with it, but does it buggily... It has nothing to
> do with any Mozilla bug or problem or un-microsoftness or anything.
> It's probably a bug in their VB scripts that they could find in 20 minutes
> instead of trying to explain why they don't fix it...
>
> We can make a game out of it, to find the shortest useragent string that
> will invoke this bug. For example,
>
> $ curl -i -s -A "Mozilla/" http://jobinfo.co.il/
>
> also gives the same internal server error.
>
>
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