sites that dont allow access from linux .

[markp1989]

last few months i have been studying a mcsa/mcse course from home. and i have to log on to the microsoft elearning site, i dual boot windows, so i usualy use windos to do my course.

i have tried changing firefoxes user agent, and that makes no difference.

is there a way to have computer to pretend to be an xp computer when connecting to the site?

thanks Markp1989

[MasterNetra]

Have you tried running XP in a Virtual Machine?

[doas777]

last few months i have been studying a mcsa/mcse course from home. and i have to log on to the microsoft elearning site, i dual boot windows, so i usualy use windos to do my course.

i have tried changing firefoxes user agent, and that makes no difference.

is there a way to have computer to pretend to be an xp computer when connecting to the site?

thanks Markp1989

at what point does it fail? and fail in what way?

[mkvnmtr]

I have internet explorer 7 running in Wine. Will that work? I must say I have never used it after the first day but it seemed to work fine.

[doas777]

I have internet explorer 7 running in Wine. Will that work? I must say I have never used it after the first day but it seemed to work fine.
i wouldn't generally expect so, but hey, it may work. I would probably try ie4lin instead, but I've never tried either so...

[markp1989]

at what point does it fail? and fail in what way?

it up sits with the loading "spinner" i right click on that its a gif, so it doesnt really show any progress. it doesnt progress atal, just sits with the spinner going round and round etc...

Ie7 in wine sounds like it may work, but i have set the user agent of firefox to Ie7 and it didnt make any difference , im thinking it may be related to silverlight or moonlight.

[kkuenzer]

I downloaded firefox for windows and installed it in wine.

[squilookle]

My bank doesn't allow you to log in with linux. However, I had success using konueror, identifying itself as ie6 on xp.

The really daft thing is it worked perfectly, so I reckon they're just being difficult. To support this view, I have an account at another bank too, and their website also detects the fact I am using linux, but rather than blocking it, they just put up a message that says it will probably work fine, but that I'm on my own if it doesn't. I prefer that.

[Paul Stone]

Maybe, Google Chrome would work for you.

http://www.google.com/chrome?platform=linux