[sf-lug] Grrr: San Francisco State University Financial Aid prejudiced against Linux users

[Michael Shiloh]

that did it! thanks!

On 12/14/2011 12:35 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Michael Shiloh (michaelshiloh1010 at gmail.com):
>
>> I was able to submit my application to grad school just fine, but
>> when it came time to apply for financial aid was hit by:
>>
>>
>> [Mozilla/5.0 (Ubuntu; X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0]
>> [BrowserDetectService:OS[LINUX_UBUNTU] browser[FIREFOX] browser
>> version[UNKNOWN] AppName[FAFSA1112] detection status [BLOCKED]]
>>
>> Can I ask my browser to lie for me?
>
> Hell yeah.
>
> http://chrispederick.com/work/user-agent-switcher/
> Don't leave $HOME without it.
>
> More at:  http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=kicking#linuxbrowser
> http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Web/user-agent-string.html
>

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