Faking out web servers

[KevinO]

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Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> When I go to http://all-access.cstv.com/cstv/player/player.html?code=osu
> to listen to the OSU game, I get the following obnoxious message:
> 
> We're Sorry
> But you will need Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 on the following systems
> in order to enjoy All-Access:
> 
> Microsoft Windows XP Home/Professional SP2, Windows XP Media Center
> 2005, Windows 2000 SP4; Media Player 9 or 10.
> 
> Click here if you're a Mac user.
> 
> 
> I seem to remember talk about changing a setting in firefox to make the
> server think that I'm using IE. Any pointers on this?
1) Install the Prefbar extension if you don't already have it.

2) Change the UA (User Agent) setting to: IE 6.0 on WinXP

HTH

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KevinO
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