RE: IE-only sites

"Rev. Shamim D.D., LFHCfS" <[email protected]> Mon, 24 Nov 2003 11:42:05 -0800
Newsgroups gmane.linux.usability.annoyances
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>To be honest, the biggest offender is IngramMicro (an American company
>operating worldwide). I've sent letters to them (no results so far) but I
>invite you all to do the same (www.ingrammicro.com).

I went to the site and clicked around, but didn't get an "IE required"
message. I don't set User-Agent in my messages (or send it as Netscape
3.x running on an Amiga) and also block Referer -- have you tried that?
Try using Opera and setting the identity to IE6 and see what happens.

(I use privoxy -- privoxy.sourceforge.net -- an HTTP proxy that allows me
to control User-Agent, Referer, cookies etc. in various ways, and also
blocks ads, popups, and other annoyances. Privoxy has the advantage it
will work regardless of whether or not your browser supports this
masquerading and blocking behaviour.)

-s