Run squid (it comes with at least redhat and mandrake) and configure the
"fake_user_agent" to look like a microsoft agent header:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98)
That will at least get you the page, but as someone else said in this
thread... if they are running active X stuff, you might have to settle for
VMware or wine to get the job done.

Brian Cluff

> I am trying as much as possible to go Microsoft free. As paart of this
> strategy I have been using Star Office, both for  Win98 and Linux and
> have found that files creeated on one aare completely usable on the
> other. In faact Im storing all of the files created on my Win machine
> on my linux box as I have Samba running on the linux box.
>
> Ive encountered 1 criticle problem. I have to aaccess a protected web
> site www.gosolo.wspan.com which claims to require Internet explorer. I
> was real happy to find that I could access the site via the Staroffice
>  Browser running under windows. Yesterday I got a modem for my Linux
> (Suse 6.2) box configured it got it working fine (infact Im sending
> this email from the Star Office email client) unfortunatley I cant
> access the web page with the staroffice browser under linux. I can get
> to the first page , Click the icon to login and it goes to a page that
> says I have to have IE5.0
>
> This page never worked under netscape under win98.
>
> Accessing this page is a mission criticle function so until I can
> figure out how to make this work I'm stuck with Windows and IE%.
>
> Any Ideas
>
> Thaks Charlie Bullen
>
>
>
>
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