Getting Fox News to work with Firefox

[Steven P. Ulrick]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 07:08:21 -0800
David Boles <dgboles at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>> Incidentally, none of the above sites worked very well for me
> >>> using Konqueror either. I have the Greasemonkey extension for
> >>> Firefox working with Fox News now. For some reason, Konqueror
> >>> still isn't working with Fox.
> >> First? You kinda' highjacked his thread with you Citibank problem.
> >> You should have started a one. Not a big deal. That happens here
> >> often.  ;-)
> > It is hard to highjack a thread that you started. The topic as I
> > saw it was sites that could not be reached properly with firefox.
> > Just for accuracy. www.citicards.com is the cite that can't be
> > accessed.
> 
> 
> I can. Rawhide soon to be FC& and Firefox 2.0.0.1. No cpmplaint from
> the site at all. They want you to have Flash 9 but all that does is
> give you the ads.

Hello, Everyone
Using Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Fedora Core 6, I cannot access
http://www.citicards.com  If I have the ambition later, I will make
some screenshots showing what "can't access" means in my case.

On the same subject, here is an interesting one for all of you:
I attempted to access http://www.citicards.com/ using konqueror from
KDE's Branch 3.5 (compiled from source)

The page that comes us is as follows:
http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/konq-screenshot-001.jpg
(The above screenshot is incomplete, because it is a flash file
offering a tour of their site....)

If I set Konqueror's Browser Identification settings to not send ANY
browser identification, I am allowed to view the actual web page:
http://www.afolkey2.net/Projects/konq-screenshot-002.jpg
(No invitation to tour their site...)

So, it LOOKS like if Konqueror identifies itself as Konqueror, it
cannot load this page properly.  But if Konqueror does not identify
itself at all, the page works.  I will let all of you figure out what
that may mean :)

Also, if I go to http://www.citibank.com with Konqueror, the main page
loads fine.  But if I click the Login link, I get the following little
tidbit: https://web.da-us.citibank.com/cgi-bin/citifi/portal/l/l.do

BUT, if I set Konqueror to not send ANY identification, clicking on
that same Login link takes me, wonder of wonders, to the actual login
page:
https://web.da-us.citibank.com/cgi-bin/citifi/portal/l/l.do

So, I guess the moral of this story is that if I use Konqueror,
Citibank thinks I'm using a supported browser as long as I don't
identify myself as anything.  But, if I "admit" that I am not using a
supported browser, then my browser isn't good enough.

Have a Great Day/Night,
Steven P. Ulrick
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