From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 02:19:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC65516A418 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:19:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3193E43D46 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:19:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 13so921866nzp for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:19:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QHWmlt9bqUHdCx8L1dl2tgsZNu0HBztwzFPJG1MO6AMwQvilxnCEeUKLB4vDSBSsyWy7fXgEKxPX4XvVqk1CPXL7OSpaArmj23xw7lwsbXtu+k0Z63eT2rS5/U9/yEOHtOQEdypC/gM457LhhR95s3P5VeD9TK5uqoTEaG/A2ds= Received: by 10.37.13.40 with SMTP id q40mr6514191nzi; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:19:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:19:56 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: dgmm In-Reply-To: <200606101654.14556.freebsd01@dgmm.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200606101654.14556.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:19:57 -0000 On 6/10/06, dgmm wrote: > I know this is a long shot but my GF want's know if it's possible to get into > an MSN groups chat room using FreeBSD and Firefox (or any other browser. > > Currently, she's getting a canned "apology" page saying: > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MSN Chat is not currently compatible with your Internet browser and/or > computer operating system. > > Here's what you need to enjoy MSN Chat: > > > Windows 95 or later > At this time, MSN Chat does not work on Macintosh, Windows 3.1, Windows NT > 3.1, and Unix Operating systems. > > Internet Explorer 4.0 or later > You can download the latest version for free at: > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie. > > - or - > > Netscape Navigator 4.x > To find out more, go to: http://home.netscape.com. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Thanks for advice, pointers or other help you might be able to offer. > Firefox on my Win2k laptop can get to the real front page of msn chat and the fact that they say that Netscape Navigator will work with there site makes me think you just need to spoof your user agent string. Try this: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/59/ and change your agent string to something like this: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) I'd test it out for you but I don't have Firefox installed on my BSD systems, I use Opera and my Mac OS X system is without a network connection at the moment. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/