Microsoft Websites

Thread view:

Enable EMail Alerts

Start New Thread

Thread rating:

Craig Sharp - 20 Jun 2004 06:45 GMT

Okay, I'm new to this newsgroup thing, but here is my problem, I am
trying to open up http://retail.microsoft.com and everytime I try, it
pulls up the http 404 error, the reason I'm concerned is that I work for
best buy and I want to use my points I've earned on the site to get a free
copy of Virtual PC for mac, if anybody out there knows the solution let me
know, oh yea, I tried on explorer safari and some other I downloaded called
camino, nothing works!

Thanks for the help
Craig

Reply to this Message

Jon - 20 Jun 2004 15:19 GMT

I tried with IE 5.1.7 for Mac, and it doesn't work either. The website is
probably a bunch of ActiveX madness, so you'll need to access it with a PC.
But, have you tried FireFox or Mozilla (www.mozilla.org) and changing the
user agent string to mimic IE 6 on a PC? If the website is blocking any
Non-IE for Windows browsers, this might work. It won't fix the problem if,
as I said, the website is a bunch of ActiveX controls (which is not
available on the Mac).

-Jon

> Okay, I'm new to this newsgroup thing, but here is my problem, I am
> trying to open up http://retail.microsoft.com and everytime I try, it
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> Thanks for the help
> Craig

Reply to this Message

Craig Sharp - 20 Jun 2004 17:45 GMT

Thanks for the help

On 6/20/04 9:19 AM, in article BCFB1539.16090%spam@shastasunset.com, "Jon"
<spam@shastasunset.com> wrote:

> I tried with IE 5.1.7 for Mac, and it doesn't work either. The website is
> probably a bunch of ActiveX madness, so you'll need to access it with a PC.
[quoted text clipped - 16 lines]
>> Thanks for the help
>> Craig

Reply to this Message

Harri Mellin - 20 Jun 2004 20:41 GMT

it's a javascript that only redirects msie for windows and sends
everyone else to a 404 page

<SCRIPT language="JavaScript">

</SCRIPT>

Signature

-------------------------------------------
Swedish Webcams <http://www.webcams.zap.to>
-------------------------------------------

Reply to this Message

Jon - 21 Jun 2004 15:51 GMT

> it's a javascript that only redirects msie for windows and sends
> everyone else to a 404 page
[quoted text clipped - 9 lines]
> //-->
> </SCRIPT>

Then changing the user agent string on the browser should get you past the
script. No guarantee that the correct page will work outside of Windows,
though.

-Jon

Reply to this Message

Mac Forum / Applications / Internet Explorer / June 2004

Microsoft Websites