Is Canada Post discriminating against Linux?

[Alex Beamish]

On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 08:17:52 -0500 (EST), John Vetterli
<jvetterli-zC6tqtfhjqE at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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.

John,

Thanks for posting the results of your wget -- I have quoted your
results in my complaint to Canada Post, asking what specifically is
wrong with Linux and Mozilla Firefox.

Alex
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml