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Author Topic: Channel 5 and their Demand5 site on Linux  (Read 10766 times)

Mick

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Re: Channel 5 and their Demand5 site on Linux
« Reply #15 on: January 10, 2016, 10:56:12 PM »

Hmm ... I tried changing the user agent on FF to that of iPad and it is still asking me to go get "Adobe Flash Player version 15.0.0 or greater".  :-(
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Re: Channel 5 and their Demand5 site on Linux
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2016, 11:01:38 PM »

What User Agent string do you get reported when you go here using your iPad? Is that the string you use in FF?
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Re: Channel 5 and their Demand5 site on Linux
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2016, 11:07:31 PM »

It's truly ironic that they named it "Demand 5".

How ridiculous that the cretins who designed it should leave users having to consider desperate measures such as fiddling with user-agent strings. Shame on Channel 5.
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currytop

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Re: Channel 5 and their Demand5 site on Linux
« Reply #18 on: January 10, 2016, 11:45:41 PM »

I've just tried again with a current iPad useragent string and it fails. What I've just remembered though is that this kludge doesn't change the user agent string reported in javascript. That requires a different fix. I'll look through my old notes. But later in the week.
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