Re: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage?

From: Petri Laihonen <pietu_at_weblizards.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 23:22:02 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <4459.68.14.52.165.1091244122.squirrel@68.14.52.165>

>>
>> However, I can not get to http://imdb.com from my linux box. All m$
>> browsers go there with no problems. I even installed the latest mozilla,
>> and no help. Imdb.com does not even respond to ping sent from linux.
>
> On a slightly related note, I ran into a nasty problem today. It seems a
> Baton
> Rouge company that does web-based medical stuff for my client does a
> browser
> detect and unless you're hitting the site with IE, all of the relative
> links
> are padded with leading backslashes. Needless to say, my 3-week-old
> campaign
> to switch that entire office to mozilla just came to a screeching halt.
>
> I didn't find a place in mozilla to change the user agent string. I might
> be
> able to put everyone behind a proxy that mangles the string, but I'm
> concerned that forcing everyone to surf through a proxy might break things
> here and there.

With opera you can change the agent string.

The latest version of opera seems to be working fine with the pages
version < 7.5 did not. It is also quite nice tool for developing and
troubleshooting WAP pages.

P
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