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Alan Hoyle

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Jan 26, 2010, 3:54:13 PM1/26/10
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While the regular shutterfly.com page loads, sub-pages often don't, and
using the "Identify/Mask as..." options make no difference:

For example:

http://rainmakerranchlabradoodles.shutterfly.com/

redirects to

http://www.shutterfly.com/sites/view.sfly?fid=bd4ed9229dcc403d

which reads:

"Shutterfly Sites requires one of the following browsers:

Internet Explorer 6.0 +

FireFox 1.5 +

Safari 3.0 + (except 3.0.4)"

This is incredibly annoying and Shutterfly.com's techs are unwilling to
change their site.

-alan

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GuessWho

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Jan 26, 2010, 7:29:43 PM1/26/10
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On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:54:13 +1100, Alan Hoyle <al...@unc.edu> wrote:

> While the regular shutterfly.com page loads, sub-pages often don't, and
> using the "Identify/Mask as..." options make no difference:
>
> For example:
>
> http://rainmakerranchlabradoodles.shutterfly.com/
>
> redirects to
>
> http://www.shutterfly.com/sites/view.sfly?fid=bd4ed9229dcc403d
>
> which reads:
>
> "Shutterfly Sites requires one of the following browsers:
>
> Internet Explorer 6.0 +
>
> FireFox 1.5 +
>
> Safari 3.0 + (except 3.0.4)"
>
> This is incredibly annoying and Shutterfly.com's techs are unwilling to
> change their site.
>
> -alan
>

at a guess i would say that their Techs cant change their site because
they dont know how to make it cross browser compatible,its not that they
WONT they just dont know how to.

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WinXP.SP3 Opera10.10

OakdaleFTL

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Jan 27, 2010, 3:56:52 AM1/27/10
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> Shutterfly Sites requires one of the following browsers: etc.

This is a splash-page. They're paid to display this… Simply click My
Shutterfly (or sign up, if you aren't already a member, and then…) to
see/use their content.

Alan Hoyle

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Jan 27, 2010, 10:10:45 AM1/27/10
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On 1/27/10 3:56 AM, OakdaleFTL wrote:
>> Shutterfly Sites requires one of the following browsers: etc.
>
> This is a splash-page. They're paid to display this� Simply click My
> Shutterfly (or sign up, if you aren't already a member, and then�) to
> see/use their content.

Signing in doesn't make a difference for me, except the "splash page"
now says "Welcome Alan" at the top.

I can't imagine that they're being paid to display this.

If I go to a shutterfly subdomain, e.g.:

http://rainmakerranchlabradoodles.shutterfly.com/

I get two quick rewrites (is that the right word when the server tells
the browser to load another page and put the URL in the Address bar?)

I can't fully decode the first one, but it goes to a www.shutterfly.com
site with the word "platform" in the URL and the second one loads
http://www.shutterfly.com/sites/view.sfly?fid=6d6412744aeeaaf86cdd16a80fdf8c46

Is there any way to stop this? I do seem to be able to access
www.shutterfly.com content directly, but it's the subdomains that fail
and fail and fail.

Remco Lanting

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Jan 27, 2010, 3:33:22 PM1/27/10
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On Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:54:13 +0100, Alan Hoyle <al...@unc.edu> wrote:

> While the regular shutterfly.com page loads, sub-pages often don't, and
> using the "Identify/Mask as..." options make no difference:
>
> For example:
>
> http://rainmakerranchlabradoodles.shutterfly.com/
>
> redirects to
>
> http://www.shutterfly.com/sites/view.sfly?fid=bd4ed9229dcc403d
>
> which reads:
>
> "Shutterfly Sites requires one of the following browsers:
>
> Internet Explorer 6.0 +
>
> FireFox 1.5 +
>
> Safari 3.0 + (except 3.0.4)"
>
> This is incredibly annoying and Shutterfly.com's techs are unwilling to
> change their site.
>
> -alan
>

1) Tools -> preferences -> advanced -> content -> manage site preferences
1a) Hit the add button
1b) Put "shutterfly.com" (without the quotes) in the domain field
1c) On the network tab, change browser identification to "Masquerade as
Firefox"
1d) OK all the way out
2) Tools -> advanced -> blocked content
2a) Through the add button, add
http://www.shutterfly.com/sites/view.sfly?fid=bd4ed9229dcc403d to the
blocked content list

It should all work with these settings, but if they change anything, like
the url you get redirected to, these steps will need updating.

--
Remco Lanting

[Unofficial Opera bug tracker links]
http://opera.remcol.ath.cx/bugs |
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=217364 |
remco.lanting...@gmail.com

Alan Hoyle

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Feb 1, 2010, 2:06:50 PM2/1/10
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I tried that and the initial page does load properly. However, if I
click on any links on the resulting page, I get a nearly blank page with
the words "The JavaScript for this page failed to load correctly."
barely legible at the top.

Sigh.

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