Pluggers thinks Conkeror is a cellphone?

[Joe Fineman]

I had been using Conkeror for some time, without difficulty, to access
the site gocomics.com.  Beginning yesterday, however, attempts to do
so have resulted in the message

  Site unavailable.  Please provide a phone number and we will alert
  you when a version of GoComics suitable for your mobile device is
  available.

Firefox continues to bring up the site, and Conkeror continues to
bring up all other sites that I haunt.  Can someone here guess what
has changed & where?
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[Axel Beckert]

Hi,

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:26:33AM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote:
> I had been using Conkeror for some time, without difficulty, to access
> the site gocomics.com.  Beginning yesterday, however, attempts to do
> so have resulted in the message
>
>   Site unavailable.  Please provide a phone number and we will alert
>   you when a version of GoComics suitable for your mobile device is
>   available.

Interesting. Do you login and the problem appears afterwards? Or does
it appear all over the site independently of logging in or not?

Because I can access http://www.gocomics.com/garfield without problems
in Conkeror (Snapshot from 2009-Jun-17 on Debian 5.0 Lenny). (I read
comics there, too, but mostly via the Liferea feed reader, so I don't
browse it very often with Conkeror.)

> Firefox continues to bring up the site, and Conkeror continues to
> bring up all other sites that I haunt.  Can someone here guess what
> has changed & where?

Not really. On which operating system? Any plugins? Which version of
XULRunner?

                Regards, Axel
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[John J. Foerch]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:26:33AM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote:

> I had been using Conkeror for some time, without difficulty, to access
> the site gocomics.com.  Beginning yesterday, however, attempts to do
> so have resulted in the message
>
>   Site unavailable.  Please provide a phone number and we will alert
>   you when a version of GoComics suitable for your mobile device is
>   available.
>
> Firefox continues to bring up the site, and Conkeror continues to
> bring up all other sites that I haunt.  Can someone here guess what
> has changed & where?

You can set the user agent string to look like another browser..

  set_user_agent(str);

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[Joe Fineman]

conkeror-request@..., in the person of Axel Beckert, writes:

> On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:26:33AM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote:
>> I had been using Conkeror for some time, without difficulty, to
>> access the site gocomics.com.  Beginning yesterday, however,
>> attempts to do so have resulted in the message
>>
>>   Site unavailable.  Please provide a phone number and we will
>>   alert you when a version of GoComics suitable for your mobile
>>   device is available.
>
> Interesting. Do you login and the problem appears afterwards? Or
> does it appear all over the site independently of logging in or not?

I don't log in.  It appears with the bare URL gocomics.com.

> On which operating system?

Sorry -- I should have mentioned that.  Windows XP (sigh).

> Any plugins? Which version of XULRunner?

Alas, I do not know what plugins or XULRunner are.

> You can set the user agent string to look like another browser..
>
>   set_user_agent(str);

Once again, I am too ignorant for such concise advice.  What string
should I set it to, and what file should the command go in?

Thank you for your patience.
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[John J. Foerch]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:28:05PM -0400, Joe Fineman wrote:
> > You can set the user agent string to look like another browser..
> >
> >   set_user_agent(str);
>
> Once again, I am too ignorant for such concise advice.  What string
> should I set it to, and what file should the command go in?



This would go in your ~/.conkerorrc.  You should be able to find
Firefox's user-agent string easily with google.

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[Joe Fineman]

On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 10:26:33AM -0400, I, Joe Fineman, wrote:

> I had been using Conkeror for some time, without difficulty, to
> access the site gocomics.com.  Beginning yesterday, however,
> attempts to do so have resulted in the message
>
>   Site unavailable.  Please provide a phone number and we will
>   alert you when a version of GoComics suitable for your mobile
>   device is available.

I am happy to say that this mysterious behavior disappeared after a
more knowledgeable friend scanned my computer for spyware & found
quite a bit.  We speculate that someone interested in harvesting
telephone numbers had intercepted the URL.  That would explain the
oddity that the pseudo-gocomics asked for a telephone number & not an
email address.
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