banks 'n' browser revisited: The sorry tale of HSBC Canada

[James Knott]

gabriel wrote:
> On April 22, 2004 09:55 am, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
> 
>>A couple of years back, Evan Leibovitch put up a very useful page based
>>on a discussion that started on this very list:
>><http://www.starnix.com/b-n-b.html>. Banks 'n' Browsers shows which
>>banks worked with which browsers.
>>
>>I didn't expect to flag a deletion in these enlightened days of web
>>standards, but HSBC Canada's "new and improved" online banking now
>>actively blocks Linux browsers. They upgraded it on the weekend, and
>>even though they claim to support Netscape 7.1, it's blocking on the
>>fact that it doesn't find Windows or Mac in the user-agent string.
>>
>>The gory details: <http://scruss.com/blog/archives/000220.html>
> 
> 
> i'm a cibc user and while i used to have to pretend i'm an ie user, since they 
> changed their system, i've had absolutely no problems doing my online banking 
> in either konqueror or firefox.

I've been using the CIBC site for years, with Netscape & Mozilla.  No 
problems.

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