Is Canada Post discriminating against Linux?

[John Vetterli]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, B B wrote:
>> I think Canada Post is blocking Linux browsers to the
>> business site. (Netcraft says the site is run on ISS)
> Yes I get the same problem.  Firefox 1.0 on Linux.  They cannot seriously
> claim this is too old.

Run "wget http://obc.canadapost.ca/" and have a look at their javascript.

It looks like they explicitly specify a list of acceptable 
platform-browser-version combinations.  If you're not on win32, macppc or 
mac68k, or if you're not using IE or Netscape, you're out of luck.

JV
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