Comments on: Leave the Driving to Us http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2006/06/29/leave-the-driving-to-us/ Covering Software Development with Ruby and FXRuby Wed, 27 Apr 2011 21:18:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Lyle http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2006/06/29/leave-the-driving-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Lyle Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:29:49 +0000 http://lylejohnson.name/blog/?p=152#comment-708 You're probably correct that the site would work fine as long as I changed the User-Agent string. I think I'd rather just give my business to some other company that doesn't make me jump through stupid hoops like this to use their service. ;) You’re probably correct that the site would work fine as long as I changed the User-Agent string. I think I’d rather just give my business to some other company that doesn’t make me jump through stupid hoops like this to use their service. ;)

]]> By: Jacob Fugal http://lylejohnson.name/blog/2006/06/29/leave-the-driving-to-us/comment-page-1/#comment-707 Jacob Fugal Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:22:44 +0000 http://lylejohnson.name/blog/?p=152#comment-707 Have you tried using the User Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox? It lets you change the User Agent string reported by the browser so that the site will think it's IE. Chances are it will actually work fine once you fool the site into letting you in. The above won't work if they're using capability sniffing rather than just reading the browser string. But I've never seen someone use capability sniffing for a decision as draconian as this; usually capability sniffing is only used to determine *how* to provide functionality cross-browser, not *when*. Come to think of it, I think I remember someone mentioning that Safari also has this ability, and it's built in rather than being a plugin. You might look into that, too. Have you tried using the User Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox? It lets you change the User Agent string reported by the browser so that the site will think it’s IE. Chances are it will actually work fine once you fool the site into letting you in.

The above won’t work if they’re using capability sniffing rather than just reading the browser string. But I’ve never seen someone use capability sniffing for a decision as draconian as this; usually capability sniffing is only used to determine *how* to provide functionality cross-browser, not *when*.

Come to think of it, I think I remember someone mentioning that Safari also has this ability, and it’s built in rather than being a plugin. You might look into that, too.

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