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Posted by Warren on July 13, 2006, 6:45 pm
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plew@csus_abcdefghij.edu wrote:
> I can get to "www.microsoft.com" but nothing on the site works; BUT
> if I disable javascript, microsoft is accessible & once past the main
> page, I can re-enable javascript if needed.
>
> This is using Firefox & Sun java; my thought was that m$ is setup for
> m$ internet explorer & m$'s version of java to stop non-ie users.
>
You're mistaking Java and javascript. Whether you're using Sun Java or the
Microsoft Virtual Machine makes no difference unless you're talking about
Java, not javascript.
What could make a difference is what your browser is identifying itself
as. If you installed a plug-in to cause it to tell a site that it's IE
instead of Firefox, that may get you into sites that won't even allow a
non-IE browser on the site. But if you come to a site that sends different
browsers to different pages, like Microsoft does, then you'll be sent to
the wrong page. And if they happen to use something that doesn't work in
Firefox on the IE page, you're going to have a problem.
Also you're going to have difficult time troubleshooting this issue
because of the way Microsoft is mirrored. Even though you and I might find
microsoft.com resolving to the same IP address, routing and load balancing
may cause us to be using entirely different servers. So if you're
consistently being sent to server A, and I'm going to server B, if there
is a problem on server A, I'll never see it. Essentially you may end-up
treating something as a client-side problem because no one you know can
duplicate it because they're really not using the same server that you
are, even if the IP address matches.
--
Warren H.
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