[SLL] Arrgh, Lake Washington School District requires IE to access web site...

Ski Kacoroski kacoroski at gmail.com
Wed Sep 19 08:36:19 PDT 2007


Hmm,  Still doesn't work from Firefox, but does from Opera.  They must
deal with user agent switching differently.  Still haven't heard back
from LWSD yet.  I did find out from looking at the page source that the
site is based on MS SharePoint Portal.

ski

On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 07:43:48 -0700 "Nathan Sandver"
<nsandver at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/19/07, Ski Kacoroski <kacoroski at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Thanks to an idea from Ralph Sims, I was able to get in.  I
> > downloaded Opera and set it to fake being IE.  This worked so at
> > least I can see my kids records.  Is there anyway to make Firefox
> > fake being IE?
> 
> Yes, there is. I've used the User Agent Switcher extension for this
> purpose before, and it worked well. You can find it here:
> 
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59
> 


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Chris "Ski" Kacoroski, kacoroski at gmail.com, 206-501-9803


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