jack wrote:
> On Sunday 29 June 2008 00:05:42 trotter wrote:
>
>> At 09:42 27/06/2008, you wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 5:23 PM, <m.nuttall@???> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I unfortunately need to use internet explorer to buy my wanderers
>>>>
>>> season ticket
>>>
>>>
>>>> through their website. I have tried every year to use firefox but with
>>>> no success.
>>>>
>>> What about the site is preventing you accessing it with Firefox? If
>>> you post the URL, maybe we can have a look, find out how why it's
>>> blocking non IE access.
>>>
>> Its part of the renewal of my season ticket i can only get so far and
>> then it wont get any further. I cant remember the details as i only
>> do it once a year.
>> The rest of the site seems to work ok in opera or Firefox although i don't
>> go there very often as the site is rather poorly designed.
>>
>>
>>> A lot of browser detection works on the user agent string - have you
>>> tried changing this in firefox to replicate a windows IE machine?
>>> (http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/1135/firefox_change_user_agents_access_con
>>> tent)
>>>
>> No i haven't tried that. I am thinking of changing user agents in
>> Firefox and opera
>> since reading in pcpro magazine about malware checking the user agent
>> string then targeting its infection to work on what browser it encounters.
>>
>> If you are bored you can poke around with some fake details maybe
>> http://www.bwfc.premiumtv.co.uk/page/Home/
>>
>> Most fans refer to it as the offish webshite since its pretty poor.
>>
>> Martin N
>>
>
>
> where does it fail?
>
> i used Konqueror to browse around a bit. and i can get as far as the page to
> activate a season ticket:
>
> https://eticketing.co.uk/bwfc/activateaccount.aspx
>
> ...where i need a membership number and can't get any further.
>
>
The main site is java script but is switch to M$ for
https://eticketing.co.uk/bwfc/default.aspx . Therefore unless you are
running Windoz for activeX support, then it isn't going to work. Another
example why open standards are so important to prevent this sort of lock in.
John.
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