[ale] [OT] User agent / browser string

[Jim Kinney]

They may be looking for activeX crap to control network access to help
sites. Did you try IE on Windows strings?


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:28 AM, William Bagwell <rb211 at tds.net> wrote:

> Trying to take an on line (Kenexa / Prove It) test and it is not liking my
> OS. Oddly will pass the pre test browser settings check just not let me
> start the actual test.
>
> Changed my user agent string in Firefox from,
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
> to,
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120403211507 Firefox/12.0
> Verified the change at another site, cleared cookies, history, rebooted
> (with
> Firefox open, have a ton of tabs open) and the test site still says "Your
> Operating System may not be compatible..."
>
> What else can I try other than borrowing the wife's computer?
> --
> William
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