From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 11 02:49:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B00F16A41A for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:49:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from nz-out-0102.google.com (nz-out-0102.google.com [64.233.162.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C599C43D45 for ; Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:49:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by nz-out-0102.google.com with SMTP id 34so1088074nzf for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:49:11 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=TCQ1erJJitdabj7CJfuCQRcujdUMW5F1VxE/Yfahna/OqV+87IOnp02CEP/pcXsafVHP1d4UKgphknZer8EPaXZEDQFpLZz7/7w6JDrBnN74RMRf42HdY5MP2UuJVGzA9HdEDqEN7ERQ9tgtAiS7aJOE9AnCIFK3rDmbq1DMcdc= Received: by 10.36.118.13 with SMTP id q13mr6527853nzc; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.104.17 with HTTP; Sat, 10 Jun 2006 19:49:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2006 21:49:11 -0500 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: dgmm In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200606101654.14556.freebsd01@dgmm.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Long Shot - MSN Group chat room access X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:49:12 -0000 On 6/10/06, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/10/06, dgmm 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/