Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:49:11 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access Message-ID: <ef10de9a0606101949j5183947cx87d651ee1cc23d9a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <ef10de9a0606101919q138b4cc7kaac23551d33393d9@mail.gmail.com> References: <200606101654.14556.freebsd01@dgmm.net> <ef10de9a0606101919q138b4cc7kaac23551d33393d9@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/10/06, Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/10/06, dgmm <freebsd01@dgmm.net> 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. > I forgot about Konqueror :-) I just tried spoofing msn chat with Konqueror and it worked, well I got to the front page at least but I don't have an msn account so I can't test it any further. In Konqueror simply goto Settings > Configure Konqueror... > Browser Identification, and then click on "New...". set it to http://chat.msn.com and use "Internet Explorer 6.0 on Windows XP". -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/
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