[TriLUG] TurboTax for the web and linux

Wed Jan 23 09:45:29 EST 2002

I tried the User Agent settings in Configure-Konqueror per the suggestion 
below  I tried www.intuit.com and www.turbotax.intuit.com in the site field 
and Mozilla 4.0 as W98.

This is what Turbo Tax is doing.  I got a blank window.

<html>
<head>
<TITLE>TurboTax</TITLE>
<SCRIPT SRC="browserCheck.js"></SCRIPT>
<SCRIPT SRC="authHelper.js"></SCRIPT>
</head>

<BODY  BGCOLOR=FFFFFF TOPMARGIN=0 LEFTMARGIN=0 RIGHTMARGIN=0 MARGINWIDTH=0 
MARGINHEIGHT=0>
<SCRIPT>
    renderForm("welcome"+platform+".htm")
    submitForm()
</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>

Is it possible that Javascript is not working?  Or maybe I need to help the 
websites find the java stuff?  I have Javascript turned on, but at another 
site (www.tekelec.com) I get a message: Error java executable not found.

Mike

On Wednesday 23 January 2002 08:51 am, you wrote:
> My assumption is that they're not checking the browser or version, but
> rather the OS. I say that because:
>
> 1.) The screen that pops up lists Windows and Mac browsers
> specifically; and
> 2.) From memory of last year's return, once one logged into the system the
> URLS contained strings that included, for example, "nn4_ux". When I work
> from my wife's Windows machine now, they include "nn4_w98" or something
> along those lines. So my guess is they've simply decided to drop the
> _ux-enabled ones.
>
> I filed a bug with TurboTax; no response yet.  I will see if I can get
> Konqueror up and running and will let you know if it works to change the
> browser ID string.
>
> This practice, of course, flies in the face of the whole point of web
> apps, which are supposed to be cross-platform. Sheesh.
>
> ap
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> 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
>
> On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, David A. Cafaro wrote:
> > No luck with the stock communicator, mozilla, or galeon from Redhat 7.2
> > (with redhat up2date patches).  I haven't tried Netscape 6 yet (which I
> > have installed on a 2.4 kernel before, I installed netscape 6.1 on a
> > redhat 7.1 machine which I thought was a 2.4 based kernel righ....I'll
> > check at work, if so I still have the .gz file on that machine for
> > netscape.)
> >
> > At 11:00 AM 1/22/2002, you wrote:
> > >On Tuesday 22 January 2002 08:27 pm, you wrote:
> > > > 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?
> > >
> > >I checked the site out.  They are saying that a Netscape 4.06 and higher
> > > (not 4.6) is supported.  I have a 4.61 loaded on a RH 6.1 box.  It did
> > > not work. The latest release of Netscape for Linux 2.2 is 4.78.
> > >
> > >What floored me is that Linux 2.4 is not supported by Netscape.  What's
> > > up with that?
> > >
> > >Anybody got a Netscape 4.06 and up (excluding 4.6) they can click into
> > >http://www.turbotax.intuit.com/welcome/perm/icomnews/welcome.htm
> > >and report results? You've got to click on "Use TurboTax 1040" to
> > > complete the test.  Success would be to NOT get the message about not
> > > supporting your browser.
> > >
> > >Mike
> > >
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