[kde-linux] Cannot access certain site

[Richard]

On Thursday 27 March 2008 5:59:05 am david wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Wednesday 26 March 2008 19:19:24 david wrote:
> >> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >>> On Wednesday 26 March 2008 12:14:11 Dale wrote:
> >>>> Sorin Schwimmer wrote:
> >>>>> Hi All,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My machine is still working to fix the problem
> >>>>> described here:
> >>>>> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-linux&m=120605290007266&w=2
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The problem is now a Gentoo problem.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Meanwhile, I have to do my daily routine. In trying to
> >>>>> do so, I found a website that I cannot access
> >>>>> (although I could before switching to KDE 3.5.8).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The website is this
> >>>>> one:https://www.txn.banking.pcfinancial.ca/a/authentication/preSignOn
> >>>>>.a ms ?referid=loginBox_banking_go It is my bank's site.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Their server is up and running, as I can go there with
> >>>>> a Firefox on a Windows box.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I tried to change browser ID in Konqui, all the
> >>>>> choices, one by one, and nothing helped.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> For now, I loaded a PuppyLinux from a CD and paid the
> >>>>> bills that I had to pay, but I'd like to use my shiny
> >>>>> new KDE and its Konqueror to accomplish this.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any idea is welcomed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks,
> >>>>> SxN
> >>>>
> >>>> I can confirm the same thing here.  Works fine on Gentoo Linux with
> >>>> Seamonkey but Konqueror gives a error.  May be a bug in Konqueror but
> >>>> I have no clue how to track it down.
> >>>>
> >>>> At least you know it is not just you tho.
> >>>
> >>> There are some sites that konqueror just can't handle.  I suspect that
> >>> they use M$'s 'extended' java.
> >>
> >> Then why would it work in Firefox or Seamonkey on Linux, as the original
> >> poster said? I don't think it has anything to do with MS.
> >
> > I assume that the Mozilla spin-offs use a work-around that cannot be
> > added to the existing code in Konqueror.
>
> My credit union's website uses nothing more than standard Javascript -
> nothing to do with any MS 'extended anything'. It doesn't work in
> Konqueror - won't let you login, reports the account is locked and says
> to call their customer service number. It works in Firefox.
>
> > Remember that much of Konqueror is old code.
> > It will be interesting to see whether the problem remains in KDE4.
>
> It'll be a few years before I touch KDE4.
>
> >> Konqueror has its own bugs. Somewhere in my email collection here I have
> >> a link to a completely W3C-valid web site that blows up in Konqueror and
> >> works fine in every other browser.
> >
> > What do you mean by 'blows up'?  What is the url?
>
> It was mentioned on this list and confirmed by other folk on the list as
>   failing in Konqueror 3.5.8. I just checked it, and the original site
> has been worked over so that it only partially fails in Konqueror now:
>
> http://fiercestreetnetworks.com/
>


Works fine for me... KDE 3.5.8 (7.10) Kubuntu

Richard