OT: firefox/linux & oldnavy.com

[Josh Coffman]

--- Alan Dayley <alandd at consultpros.com> wrote:

> Josh Coffman said:
> > Yeah, oldnavy.com... christmas shopping for the
> kids.
> > Anyway, I keep having to set the UserAgent to IE
> for
> > my wife so she can shop oldnavy.com. This is on
> Fedora
> > Core 4 using firefox 1.5. However, I have no
> problem
> > with it using firefox 1.5 on windows.
> >
> > Seems like something about the user agent request
> > headers is confusing oldnavy and it doesn't
> recognize
> > it as an acceptable browser. Anything I can do? My
> > wife, wodnerful lady, just doesn't want to learn
> to
> > change the user agent from the menu. I certainly
> don't
> > want to set User Agent to always impersonate IE.
> 
> Yea, I ran into this also.  It's not clear from your
> message but
> installing the User Agent Switcher extension
>
(https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=59&application=firefox)
> helps.  It makes the switching a simple menu click.
> 
> Through trial and error one night I found that
> oldnavy.com objects to the
> "Linux" part of the user agent report.  I suppose
> they don't mind Firefox,
> they just don't like Linux as the reported OS.
> 
> I gave them feedback several weeks ago that this is
> quite lame, since the
> site works fine when you get past the user agent
> check.  No response so
> far.
> 
> Alan
> 
> 

I added a new user-agent profile with this useragent:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
rv:1.8) Gecko/20051111 Firefox/1.5

everything else from the default agent. This
semi-impersonates firefox on windows. Worked. Now I
just need to figure out how to change the default
user-agent.



Shin zen ni rei
-j
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