OT: Canadian Census 2006
Robin Laing
Robin.Laing at drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Thu May 4 22:09:57 UTC 2006
taharka wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 21:27 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 09:37 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
>>
>>>I did some forensic analysis after Googling for the website.
>>>
>>>They check for browser spoofing and the specifically only support
>>>browser that match these strings :
>>>
>>>Win (netscape|firefox|Microsoft)
>>>
>>>Mac (safari)
>>>
>>>It appears they do not even support Netscape, Firefox or Explorer on
>>>Macs.
>>
>>Ah crap. I was really looking forward to filling out the census online.
>>Now I'm going to have to torture myself and fire up WinME in VMware.
>
>
> FWIW, I'm able to access the site with Firefox version 1.5.0.3 for Linux
> by;
>
> 1.) Using the extension, "User Agent Switcher 0.6.8" & setting it to
> "Internet Explorer 6 (Windows XP)".
>
> 2.) Setting "network.http.sendRefererHeader" to 0 (zero) in about:config
> Note, the default setting is 2.
>
> 3.) Enabling cookies/java script. I usually keep these two disabled ;-)
>
> As always, YMMV.
>
>
>>Regards,
>
>
> Regards to you also :-))
>
>
>>Ranbir
>
>
> taharka
>
> Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
>
But is there a place at the end to complain and to rub it in their face
that Linux will work even if they don't want it to?
--
Robin Laing
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