[WEB4LIB] Netscape 6 and FirstSearch

[Walter W. Giesbrecht]

Thomas Dowling wrote:
> 
> Is anyone getting into FirstSearch with Netscape 6 or Mozilla?  OCLC seems
> to have a browser sniffer that screws up, overlooks your valid IP, and
> sends you to a password login screen.  Thanks for illustrating why relying
> on browser sniffing is bad.

No problems here with NS6 -- but then, we use (for staff, anyway)
a form/script that passes the username/password over to OCLC for
login. The databases that students have access to use IP
recognition; these (don't) work as described by the Web Guy
above.

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Walter Giesbrecht                               walterg at yorku.ca
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