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Mon, 14 Nov 2005

[09:25] Firefox 1.5 and Online Banking
One of my banks is preventing the 1.5 version of firefox that I'm using from hitting the online banking site. Being the progressive bank they are (their debit cards have PINs now!!!) they used to let firefox 1.0 in. I'm assuming they haven't blocked 1.5 because of any specific security issues as they've listed none on their "Why you can't log on" page. I figure they just haven't updated their list of allowed User Agent strings. With this in mind I have loaded the User Agent Switcher Extension and added my own custom User Agent string to pretend I'm the old version I was running. The specific string looks like this:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 Firefox/1.0.7

Now I can get in again :)

There's a handy list of example UserAgent strings on the Wikipedia entry for them if you want to find some useful examples for spoofing the browser and there is an insanely complete list here.


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