libera #seamonkey

9 Sep 2022

Surfing the net has never been so suite | SeaMonkey Release: 2.53.19 | seamonkey-project.org/releases | This channel is logged at logbot.thereisonlyxul.org/seamonkey | SeaMonkey Nightly Archive archive.seamonkey-project.org/nightly | c-c (OPEN ) , c-253 (APPROVAL ONLY)

• 19:12
  therube
  ibm can't even display, what should be essentially a "text" web page, ibm.com/docs/en/integration-bus/10.…sources-changing-location-work-path
• 19:14
  tomman
  therube: Ah, International Bullshit Machines
• 19:14
  tomman
  "SyntaxError: invalid identity escape in regular expression"
• 19:14
  tomman
  it's time to fire IBM
• 19:15
  tomman
  Remember when IBM made great hardware and funky software?
• 20:25
  njsg
  hm, let me check
• 20:28
  njsg
  tomman: general.useragent.override.ibm.com, Wget
• 20:29
  njsg
  Wget might have been just a browser name I came up with for a random value, no idea if it has to be wget, I don't remember why I chose it.
• 20:29
  tomman
  njsg: that's SO IBM in spirit
• 20:29
  njsg
  but I have some recollection of an override for this site being mentioned in one of the newsgroups
• 20:30
  njsg
  with my luck, it'll probably be mozilla.support.seamonkey...
• 20:31
  njsg
  tomman: it's always possible it's a hack in place for wget, lynx and so on :-D
• 20:31
  tomman
  njsg: any "bogus" UA will default to sanity
• 20:31
  tomman
  a "real" UA will trigger the Chromeisms
• 20:31
  tomman
  for example, I'm trying a iPhone UA and it of course loads the broken version
• 20:33
  tomman
  ...a Nintendo 3DS UA will also get served a page that no 3DS will be able to render, ever
• 20:34
  tomman
  I even tried with the most business UA string ever, IE6
• 20:34
  tomman
  alas, I still get served Chromeisms
• 20:35
  tomman
  so it must absolutely not be a real browser string
• 20:35
  tomman
  fittingly for IBM, even "Think" as a UA string will serve a human-readable page
• 20:41
  njsg
  What about "Think different"?
• 21:41
  tomman
  touché