On Mon, 26 May 2003, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > On Mon, 2003-05-26 at 22:49, Matthew Saltzman wrote: > > Unfortunately, I need Netscape 4.7x in order to access my online banking > > account. > > Have you tried Konquerer? It includes a feature to spoof the > "User-Agent" field in the HTTP header, which could fool your online > banking site into thinking you're using NS 4.x. I think that some of > the Mozilla clones (Galeon maybe?) include a similar feature. Some broken Java apps (including this bank's) rely on the ersatz Java plugin built into IE and Netscape 4.x. They don't work with the official Sun Java yet, so simply fooling the server into thinking it's got the right browser would not be enough to solve the problem. I am assured that a solution is in the works[1], but I have no idea how long it will take. [1] Will have to be, since MS will no longer be able to ship the borked IE Java after Jan. 2004. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
