MSNBC Newsweek feeds Opera the wrong page
Toman
What met me was a table of contents, not a front page.
When changing the ID to anything but Opera, I got the true front page.
Newsweek.com redirected me to http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3032542/ , so this
is obviously Microsoft stuff... The source code showed the error had
nothing to do with Opera, all that was there was the HTML needed (more
than needed mind you) to show the TOC.
I then tried experimenting with Proxomitron, the filtering proxy, and
changed the ID of Opera from
Opera/7.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
to
Operi/7.50 (Windows NT 5.1; U) [en]
and I got the front page again. More experimentation showed that almost
anything but the original opera id got me the correct page. In fact just
changing the capitalization in the string from 'Opera' to 'opera' or
'OPera' yeilded results. The same went with 'Opera /7.50' and 'Opera/
7.50' (Notice the spaces). I also tried 'Mozilla Opera/7.50' which got me
through, but 'Mozillu Opera/7.50' didn't.
Are they checking for Opera specifically again? Is there any way to stop
this from happening?
Screenshots:
Opera/7.50 <http://home.no.net/polynar/opera/temp/newsweek_opera750.png>
Operi/7.50 <http://home.no.net/polynar/opera/temp/newsweek_operi750.png>
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larry
Rest assured it be fixed shortly.
Toman
> We have an open bug to fix opera issues on MSNBC & Newsweek.
Don't forget it's an MSNBC issue. ;)
> Rest assured it be fixed shortly.
Good. The problems with the detection are probably easy to track down (the
faulty scheme is very specific to MSNBC), so I expect it will be fixed
rather rapidly. (What worked yesterday when circumventing the detection
doesn't work today, so at least something is happening.)
Maybe you'll be so kind to post a notice here when it's fixed? I see your
IP address is an MSNBC one.