Can't Use Linux on TSN

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Tue Dec 4 00:02:25 UTC 2007


On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 02:57:45PM -0500, John Myshrall wrote:
> Well I thought I would check out TSN's broadband connection on their 
> site and was greeted with this message. Really disappointing.
> 
> Sorry, your OS is not supported!
> We recommend Windows 2000, Windows XP, or Mac OS X.
> 
> I sent a message asking why they were blocking Linux users. 

The discoverychannel canada is just as bad.

Even with the user agent faked, you only get slightly further, being
told that you should upgrade to flash 8 or higher, which is odd since I
have flash 9 installed and all other web sites seem perfectly able to
detect that.  Apparently the goofballs at CTV just don't know anything
about coding web pages.

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