Re: OT: Canadian Census 2006

On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 09:37 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
I did some forensic analysis after Googling for the website.

They check for browser spoofing and the specifically only support
browser that match these strings :

Win (netscape|firefox|Microsoft)

Mac (safari)

It appears they do not even support Netscape, Firefox or Explorer on
Macs.

Ah crap. I was really looking forward to filling out the census online.
Now I'm going to have to torture myself and fire up WinME in VMware.

Regards,

Ranbir

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