Re: fire fox/ie

The bit about bert.wvu.edu being a mozilla-allowed backdoor is nifty.  I
never tried that, but have emailed several times to request and make
serveral outstanding points as to why they should not only allow
mozilla, but disallow IE if they *really* want security...  to no avail.
Basically I forward all of my mix mail to my mailserver, but to use
WebCT and the likes I usually have to use a University computer since I
have no Windows boxen...  

On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 00:59 -0400, Andrei Smirnov wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005, JP Fielding wrote:
> 
> > i don't know specifically what string it's searching for, but you can
> > try a few different strings and see what works, but here's the
> > recipe...
> > 
> > in the address bar type about:confg
> > then filter on useragent
> > 
> > you'll see one that says 'Firefox'
> > 
> > i use 'Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)' in one
> > setup that i use to fake out a server.  another one i think also was
> > looking for the string 'Microsoft Internet Explorer', so i prepended
> > that.  this works great under linux for me.
> 
> I personally just go to http://bert.wvu.edu and it seems like a back-door
> to mix.wvu.edu. However, if they turn that site down - I'm in trouble,
> since all my computers run Linux. Yes, I can use that firefox disguise 
> feature, but I don't think this is the way it should be.
> 
> So, no matter what you'll do, it would be nice if you send them a request
> to open up mix.wvu.edu for non-Microsoft users. I did that before, but my
> voice was not enough.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrei
> 
> > 
> > hope that helps
> > 
> > On 4/23/05, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > Hey I just went to new student orientation, i got a mix account.  I hear that they will not support firefox (or other web browsers besides ie)  I have heard that there is a plugin that will make the server think firefox is ie.  or there is some place you set a setting.  Could someone tell me how to do this.  My computer runs linux so i have to use firefox (and absolutly do not trust ie).
> > > 
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