[TriLUG] TurboTax for the web and linux

[Jason White]

If you look closely at Intuit's javascript, you will see that the
browser platform must either contain "Win" or "MacPPC".  Here is their
browserCheck function...

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 function browserCheck() {
   var ua = navigator.userAgent;
   var an = navigator.appName;
   var av = navigator.appVersion;
   var pf = navigator.platform;
   var pass = false;
   if (ua != null && ua.indexOf("Opera") >= 0) {
     pass = false;
   } else if (pf != null && pf.indexOf("MacPPC") >= 0) {
     pass = ((an == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" && av != null && parseFloat(av) >= 5) ||
             (an == "Netscape" && av != null && parseFloat(av) >= 4.08 && parseFloat(av) < 5));
   } else if (pf != null && pf.indexOf("Win") >= 0) {
     pass = ((an == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" && av != null && parseFloat(av) >= 4) ||
             (an == "Netscape" && av != null && parseFloat(av) >= 4.06 && parseFloat(av) != 4.6) ||
             (av != null && av.indexOf("AOL") >= 0 >&& >parseFloat(av) >>= >>4)); 
   }
   if (!pass) {
     this.location = "browser.htm";
   }
   return pass;
 }
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Regards,
Jason


* Andrew Perrin (andrew_perrin at unc.edu) [020122 20:32]:
> Folks,
> 
> Last year I did our taxes on TurboTax for the Web from a linux machine
> (debian potato, then running probably Netscape 4.0x or something like
> that). I tried to do so again this year and found that they've turned it
> off for any non-Windows/Mac browser.  Questions:
> 
> - Any ideas for devious, or not-so-devious, ways to get around this?
> - Any ideas for convincing them to change policies?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin at unc.edu - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
>  Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>       269 Hamilton Hall, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
> 
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