[Am-info] They really DON'T get the web

[Martin Sandberg]

I sent this page off to the iCab people and sure enough, Microsoft IS 
out to destroy the web, starting with their own site.

>http://office.microsoft.com/assistance/offhelp/offxp/access/ seems to
>cause iCab 2.8 on OS X no end of problems.

All the problems are caused by Microsoft itself. The Microsoft server is
programmed in a very stupid and bad way. It does return internal error
messages if it can't recognize the browser (very stupid, because on this
page there's nothing which requires a browser specific behavior, so
there's no need to find out which browser the user is using. And even
worse, they've forgotten to do something useful if the user does use an
"unknown" browser).

All you can do is to configure iCab to identify itself as Internet Explorer
or as Netscape browser, to fool the server. To do this, select one of the
"Mozilla" identities in the "iCab preferences > network > identity"

-- 
Martin
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