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Using IE on the Ipad 1 or 2?

wayneholbrook

wayneholbrook

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Mar 30, 2010
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Miami Florida
Good afternoon,

Unfortunately my government job has a site that I must sign into daily but it only works with Internet Explorer.

Does anyone know of a way to use IE on the ipad? I’m sure there is a way if I jailbreak it, but is that the only way?
 
There is no way. That software has only been developed for Windows and even if it was for Mac too(it used to be though), the iPad isn't the right architecture to run the dreaded browser.
 
Probably some antiquated ActiveX-based site. Was at Wright Patt base for awhile and it was tortuous trying to use a non-Windows XP system there. Unfortunately its impossible unless you VNC/TeamView into your Windows PC either on-base or at home (remote access)?
 
Give the app Terra a shot (free). It can be identified as IE6. I'm not real techy.. not sure if that will work, but worth a shot!
 
msb3079 said:
Give the app Terra a shot (free). It can be identified as IE6. I'm not real techy.. not sure if that will work, but worth a shot!
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Unfortunately Terra does just that (identifies itself as IE6) which can help with style sheets on some sites that do not display correctly. However, we have some web apps that only work with IE and Terra will still not address the technical limitation of that site.
 
I thought Atomic browser could spoof the headers to make it look as if it's running from IE, Safari, etc.
 
number84 said:
I thought Atomic browser could spoof the headers to make it look as if it's running from IE, Safari, etc.
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Yes, Atomic Web can be set to identify as Firefox, IE, Desktop Safari, etc. If the issue is that the site is doing header parsing to determine browser versions and will only allow those identified as IE to log in then Atomic would work.

However, if the site requires ActiveX then there's no way you're going to get that to work on iOS.
 
Your best bet is to just remote into a computer that's actually running Windows.
 
Use LogMeIn

Use LogMeIn iPad application from that you can remote desktop your home pc.
It's as good as working on home laptop in iPad. You can remote desktop any pc where security is allowed.
 
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