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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] shockwave.com linux
From:       Jerry Kreps <jerrykreps () jlkreps ! net>
Date:       2001-04-22 19:49:48
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On Sunday 22 April 2001 13:29, Ben Rosenberg wrote:
> * Matt Banta (tie_guy_matt@yahoo.com) [010422 11:24]:
> =>Hi!
> =>
> =>If you try to goto shockwave.com, it won't even let
> =>you onto the site because you don't use an approved
> =>OS. Yet shockwave is certainly supported by linux. In
> =>fact if you go directly to the radiskull and devil
> =>doll web page you see there are links to directly let
> =>you play the movies if you have linux. Has anyone
> =>found a way to get around the morons who put up the
> =>shockwave.com webpage?
>
> Nope, they do server side queries of your browser and it ident's
> your OS..if you tell Konqueror to ident itself as IE5 under
> Win98..you get in no problem. It's their servers. We should get
> together a petition to let them know what a bunch of morons they
> are.

Where?  How?  I find no menu options, keytraps or help articles that
describe how to set Konqueror to ident itself as any other browser.
JLK




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