[Wolves] Can you believe it??!!

Jono Bacon jonobacon at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 28 13:25:15 GMT 2004


Heya,

It is worth changing the user agent (the thing the
browser tells the server to indicate what browser it)
- you can spoof this. You can do it in Mozilla by
typing in:

  about:config

and changing the relevent lines to indicate your
browser. If it works you will see in the About part of
the Help menu. There is plenty of information on doing
this on the net.

I used to work at Delta where WOLF was developed and
they had a number of pro-Linux people there, but it
was the management that insisted on it requiring IE.
Certainly ring up and complain as it will give the
guys there ammunition to support all browsers.

  Jono


--- David Goodwin <david at openminds.co.uk> wrote:
> Helen Randle wrote:
> > Ok. So you probably can!
> > 
> > I sent an email to Wolves uni IT asking how I
> could access their online
> > learning thingy, as I kept getting this message - 
> > 
> > "The WOLF Learning Environment cannot be used with
> your current computer set
> > up because:
> >     Netscape does not work with WOLF. Please use
> Internet Explorer 5.0 or
> > higher."
> > 
> > I explained that my web browser *was* higher than
> IE 5.0! So why wasn't it
> > working?
> > 
> > And they said I should *phone* the support
> desk!!!! (I'm quite tempted, just
> > for a laugh!)
> > 
> > Anyway, I haven't got time to hang on the end of a
> phone all day, so has
> > anyone got any ideas how I get round this?
> > 
> > Helen
> > 
> 
> What are you using? Mozilla?
> 
> There is a add on to it which can be used to set
> what the browser 
> appears as (see
> http://extensionroom.mozdev.org/more-info.php/uabar)
> or 
> search for User Agent
> 
> 
> Unfortunately if they require IE, then they may
> require VBScript.... in 
> which case somethings just won't work for you.
> 
> David.
> 
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