Why Firefox is blocked

hacker supreme · 08-19-2007, 11:52 AM

I've decided that if a website developer is going to block my browser, then the page wasn't worth seeing anyway.
If they don't want me to see their products, I'll go to a competitor who doesn't have their head up their a$$. I wonder how many businesses would implement this and reduce their market that much, and how long said business would last.

HowDoIProgramIt · 08-19-2007, 12:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rickh

Edit: This story has been exploding in the last few days, and taking on the aura of an urban legend. ...

Wow. You're not kidding... Just got 10 pages from google using "whyfirefoxisblocked" as search topic...

What I found to be even more curious was what was returned to me when I opened a connection to "www.jacklewis.net" && retrieved index.html using telnet. Yeah, they're really using that horrible open source software stuff that's so anti-capitallipstick...

Why am I getting the feeling someone was looking for attention?

Code:

telnet www.jacklewis.net 80
Trying 70.87.42.226...
Connected to www.jacklewis.net (70.87.42.226).
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /index.html
<html>
<html>
<title>cPanel&reg;</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<style type="text/css">
body {
        font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-size: 12px;
        background-color:#367E8E;
        scrollbar-base-color: #005B70;
        scrollbar-arrow-color: #F3960B;
        scrollbar-DarkShadow-Color: #000000;
        color: #FFFFFF;
}
a { color:#021f25; text-decoration:none}
h1 {
        font-size: 18px;
        color: #FB9802;
        padding-bottom: 10px;
        background-image: url(sys_cpanel/images/bottombody.jpg);
        background-repeat: repeat-x;
        padding-left: 15px;
}
#body-content p {
        padding-left: 25px;
        padding-right: 25px;
        line-height: 18px;
        padding-top: 5px;
        padding-bottom: 5px;
}
h2 {
        font-size: 14px;
        font-weight: bold;
        color: #FF9900;
        padding-left: 15px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="body-content">
<h1>Great Success <i>!</i>
<br />
Apache is working on your cPanel<sup>&reg;</sup> and WHM™ Server</h1>
<p>If you can see this page, then the people who manage this server have installed
<a href="http://www.cpanel.net">cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM)</a> which use the
<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache Web server</a> software and the
<a href="http://www.modssl.org/">Apache Interface to OpenSSL (mod_ssl)</a> successfully.
They now have to add content to this directory and replace this placeholder page, or else
point the server at their real content.</p>

<h2>ATTENTION!</h2>
<p>If you are seeing this page instead of the site you expected, please <strong>contact the
administrator of the site involved.</strong> (Try sending an email to
<samp>&lt;webmaster@<em>domain</em>&gt;</samp>.) Although this site is running cPanel,
WebHost Manager, and Apache software it almost certainly has no other connection to cPanel Inc.or the Apache Group. Please do not send mail about this site or its contents to cPanel Inc.
or the Apache Group.</p>

<h2>About cPanel:</h2>
<p>cPanel is a leading provider of software for the webhosting industry. If you would like
to learn more about cPanel please visit our website at <a href="http://www.cpanel.net/">www.cpanel.net</a>.
Please be advised that cPanel Inc. is not a web hosting company, and as such has no control over
content found elsewhere on this site.</p>

<h2>About Apache HTTP Server:</h2>
<p>The Apache HTTP Server is an open source web server which powers many of the worlds web sites.
The Apache HTTP server is part of the Apache Group's many influential projects. Their efforts have
helped shape much the world wide web, and they continue to be a dominating force in the web hosting
industry.</p>
</div>
<table width="70%" align="center">
        <tr>
                <td align="center"><img src="sys_cpanel/images/powered_by.gif" /></td>
                <td align="center"><img src="sys_cpanel/images/apache_pb.gif" /></td>
        </tr>
</table>
<!-- REVISION: 1.3 -->
</BODY>
</HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.

alred · 08-19-2007, 12:08 PM

does opera also has this problem ... ??

how to reproduce that scenario ...

//sometime i like to be as objective and as scientific as possible when looking at things once in a while ... ^_^

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Hitboxx · 08-20-2007, 11:14 PM

Someone did an alternative http://whyisfirefoxblocked.com/ cool

colinstu · 08-20-2007, 11:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by shrikant.odugoudar

Someone did an alternative http://whyisfirefoxblocked.com/ cool

XD I love it.

lleb · 08-21-2007, 09:54 AM

this guy is just a total wack job. he is greedy and that is that. i called him the day i heard about this, yes you can whois both all of the URLs and find his phone number. i was not rude, or accusing, just asked him to reconsider his stance as a businessman i refuse to deal with the massive amount of security issues posed by most ads out there.

as i spoke with him on the phone, his server crashed. duh i wounder why /sarcasim off

rkelsen · 08-22-2007, 06:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jordanGSU

edit: Took another look at this page and found they are redirecting with the following:

Code:

if(!document.all){window.location='http://whyfirefoxisblocked.com/';}

wow, thats one way to do it, use IE's poor JavaScript implementation as a way to know if people are using a better browser...

Pardon my ignorance, but does that also mean that Opera will be redirected?

Mega Man X · 08-22-2007, 07:10 AM

I haven't been to the guys site so I don't know what it is about, nor I actually care about his site. However, if he actually sells stuff at his site, I must say he is brilliant. Think about it: bash a popular browser and get lots of attention. Bingo... you are on every search engine and news and your site will be hit by a vast number of visitors.

Or I could be all wrong and he really is an idiot... Oh well.

jordanGSU · 08-22-2007, 07:14 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rkelsen

Pardon my ignorance, but does that also mean that Opera will be redirected?

Opera seems to work, so apparently it supports the "document.all" JavaScript call. That call is not limited to IE, but IE was the browser that introduced it...before W3C had a standard I think.

and yeah, this guys site is getting way more traffic than it deserves because of this

jens · 08-22-2007, 08:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mega Man X

I haven't been to the guys site so I don't know what it is about, nor I actually care about his site. However, if he actually sells stuff at his site, I must say he is brilliant. Think about it: bash a popular browser and get lots of attention. Bingo... you are on every search engine and news and your site will be hit by a vast number of visitors.

Or I could be all wrong and he really is an idiot... Oh well.

Read the content of his site (try Opera) and you'll see he's just an idiot (or a joke).

Jorophose · 08-22-2007, 12:26 PM

http://www.whyisfirefoxblocked.com/

^ Best site ever!

That said, the guy's an idiot. He's just looking at the browser agent thingy. And we all know it's easy to change. On top of that, no one is redirecting to his site...

alred · 08-22-2007, 01:52 PM

>> "Opera seems to work, so apparently it supports the "document.all" JavaScript call. That call is not limited to IE, but IE was the browser that introduced it... before W3C had a standard I think."

is that link safe to click on ... do i need to enable javascript and the rest ... ??

//seems like an interesting issue after reading this thread a bit ...

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rkelsen · 08-22-2007, 06:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alred

//seems like an interesting issue after reading this thread a bit ...

I think it's stupid.

I pay for my bandwidth. If someone wants to force me to use my bandwidth to download ads, then they can re-imburse me for the privilege.

By comparison, while I have the option to pay for TV content, I choose not to. I watch free-to-air TV and accept the fact that it will be full of annoying advertisements, because someone has to pay the bills.

I could be more sympathetic to his cause if I didn't have to pay for my bandwidth, but I do, so I aren't...

He can go and suck eggs as far as I'm concerned.

St.Jimmy · 08-22-2007, 06:28 PM

Gee, there's an idea! Let's block millions of users because they might be blocking our ads!

alred · 08-23-2007, 01:55 PM

i'm more and more dont understand the issue ...

why exactly these things can make people so angry ... ?? not like the internet currently is what it should be ...

what i can see is that these issues are what make the internet as it is now ...

//i guess that the internet has turned human ... !!

[EDIT ::] btw ... i still prefer the way i browse the internet ...

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