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"IE site only" to pay a bill

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toof337

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Jan 30, 2013
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I want to pull the trigger on a new MacBook but I cannot log on to ucfs.net
It is a IE only site. I've tried to spoof the site, I've tried Wine, and even tried installing the old IE. It always gives me the message "invalid request type of <null>!" I really dont want to install the whole windows OS through bootcamp just to pay one bill. Any suggestions?

Thanks.
 
Stop using the side. Srsly - it's 2013 and they can't support any other browser than IE?!
I guess it only runs with Win XP and some browserversion that's even older than my granny
 
Do you know if it works on WP8 devices? Or just normal IE?

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Wuiffi said:
Stop using the side. Srsly - it's 2013 and they can't support any other browser than IE?!
I guess it only runs with Win XP and some browserversion that's even older than my granny
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I hope this is sarcasm.
 
toof337 said:
Haven't tried WP8.
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If you have about 100$ to try it, you could get a cheap Lumia 520 and test it on there. If it works on the mobile browser, and it probably should, then you just fixed the problem without having to load Windows on your Mac.
 
toof337 said:
Yes. Still no go
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This has happened to me in some sites. It usually happens if the site uses ActiveX or some other specific Win/IE tool. The only ways I have found around this are use a PC with IE or a VM with Windows installed and run IE. I use a VM.
I understand that one could run IE with ActiveX with Crossover, but the last time I tried (long time ago), it did not work
 
Just tried it on a WP8 phone and it worked.
I just wish the Macs could do it.
Really dont want to resort to two devices just to pay a bill.
Sucks... oh well....
 
Yea.....But really didnt want to intall a whole OS just to pay one bill every month. Don't know if I should be frusterated at Apple or the site.
 
toof337 said:
Don't know if I should be frusterated at Apple or the site.
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You have a website that supports nothing but Microsoft technologies when that is probably for a totally unnecessary reason. There is no sane reason to blame Apple. They don’t operate the site and they have nothing to do with IE. If the website chooses to use proprietary tech, there is nothing Apple can do.
 
Contact the company and tell them that their site does not work. If they want payment, they'll have to offer you another method.
 
Yes... tried it on Safari, Chrome, Mercury, Puff,and a few more.
To no avail

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Yes... tried spoofing it on Safari, Chrome, Mercury, Puff,and a few more.
To no avail
 
old-wiz said:
wonder if the site uses ActiveX? that can't be spoofed.
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The OP said the site worked on WP8 (I presume WP8 is Windows Phone 8). I don't think Windows Phone 8 supports ActiveX:
http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/201...net-explorer-10-on-windows-8-windows-phone-8/
The most important exclusions for IE10 on the Windows Phone 8 platform when compared to Windows 8 are a lack of “Inline video” support, no ActiveX or VBScript support, no multi-track HTML5 audio, and no use of file access APIs, or “drag-and-drop” APIs. ...
[Emphasis added]
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toof337 said:
Just tried it on a WP8 phone and it worked.
I just wish the Macs could do it.
Really dont want to resort to two devices just to pay a bill.
Sucks... oh well....
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Technically, your Mac can run Internet Explorer.

But you may want to let Scott Fetzer know of this:
Browser-usage-world-wide-2011-2013.jpg
 
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Try this:

1. Open Safari and go into preferences.
2. Under the Advanced tab check the box next to show develop in menu bar.
3. Go to Develop --- user agent --- IE.

Hope this works. It usually does.

-d
 
I just want to point out that Apple has Safari-only sites, so at least two are playing that game. (onetoone.apple.com is an offender here). I tried to go there from Firefox (browser of choice) and IE and both times got a nastygram that the website required Safari.

NOT cool, Apple.
 
Tharian said:
Try this:

1. Open Safari and go into preferences.
2. Under the Advanced tab check the box next to show develop in menu bar.
3. Go to Develop --- user agent --- IE.

Hope this works. It usually does.

-d
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The OP has already commented that this does not work.

djtech42 said:
Wouldn't this be illegal? It's similar to a monopoly.
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No it is not illegal - your bill paying site probably doesn’t have any sort of a monopoly in your area (even if that mattered - and it likely doesn’t) and it also doesn’t own or control IE. MS certainly never forced them to use IE only technologies. This is your bill company being lazy idiots by not supporting other platforms like they should. However being restrictive about technology requirements is certainly not illegal.
 
toof337 said:
Yea.....But really didnt want to intall a whole OS just to pay one bill every month. Don't know if I should be frusterated at Apple or the site.
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My suggestion will seem old-fashioned, but if it's only one site, you'd probably do better just to write them a check each month and be done with it!
 
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Opera?

toof337 said:
I want to pull the trigger on a new MacBook but I cannot log on to ucfs.net
It is a IE only site. I've tried to spoof the site, I've tried Wine, and even tried installing the old IE. It always gives me the message "invalid request type of <null>!" I really dont want to install the whole windows OS through bootcamp just to pay one bill. Any suggestions?

Thanks.
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Once I had trouble logging into my son's school website, like you I did not have IE, so after a little search I tried Opera and it works. It is free so you have nothing to loose.
 
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