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I just bought the Barnes & Noble Nook eReader for my wife's birthday and a requirement is to log on to the Nook website and establish an account. Using her Fedora 13 64bit desktop and Firefox she repeatedly tried to access the website www.nook.com to create an account, however consistently got the server not found message. Even using the Firefox addon User Agent Switcher and turning off NoScript did not correct this.
When we switched over to the WinXP install and Firefox we were able to access the website no problem. Anyone else unable to access that website via linux?
May have been a temporary DNS resolution problem, server trouble on their end, or similar thing. I just tried it from my Slackware desktop (Linux/Slackware user agent, Firefox) and got the website just fine; navigation to the account creation page worked, though I did not create an account..
I have tried to access it again with linux and no luck. Sever Not Found is what I get through Fedora 13. Oddly enough, I can open a shell and ping www.nook.com and get a response. I don't know if it matters, but my provider is Comcast High Speed. I thought maybe some malcontent doesn't like linux and specifically excluded it. So I wanted to try to a fake out, but haven't figured out how to make it think I'm running WinXP instead of Fedora.
So I wanted to try to a fake out, but haven't figured out how to make it think I'm running WinXP instead of Fedora.
Either manually edit your Browser's "User Agent" string via the about:config page (type "user agent" or similar into the search bar in the about:config page) or try the "User Agent Switcher" addon for Firefox. Perhaps someone here (or yourself, since you have Windows) can post a user agent for Windows so you can copy it accurately.
EDIT: And, if you happen to be using any sort of extension that alters your referrer string, such as 'refcontrol', disable that and try again.
Last edited by GrapefruiTgirl; 09-30-2010 at 08:11 AM.
I have tried User Agent Switcher with no luck. I have not modified /etc/hosts. This is a standard F13 install on 64bit. I can look at some of this when I get home tonight.
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