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Also: https://www.mealpay.com/UnsupportedBrowser.aspx has "Secure Solution" just above "Microsoft." Oh the irony :p.

"A tool is not evil simply because someone can imagine an evil way to use it."
But in this case the tool is evil because it only works with IE 5.5 and up. I don't know if agent switching works or not other than you get the main page if you switch.

Very strange. I would love to figure this out. Even when I set Opera to identify as IE, the site identifies it as Opera and won't let me past the front door.

Are you going to http://www.mealpay.com/ or are you using some other link?

http://www.mealpay.com/ sends me to https://www.mealpay.com/UnsupportedBrowser.aspx w/ the latest Firefox, unless I spoof my user-agent to be IE 6.0.

http://www.mealpay.com/ sends me to https://www.mealpay.com/UnsupportedBrowser.aspx w/ the latest Firefox, unless I spoof my user-agent to be IE 6.0.

except it's not the district apparently.
https://www.mealpay.com/

note- starts with a https for the warm and fuzzies.

In related news, an enterprising young 14-year-old student at Marietta Middle School found out that the old saying, "There's no such thing as a free lunch" isn't true - when he hacked mealpay.com... By the way, try to go to mealpay.com with firefox - It sends you here: https://www.mealpay.com/UnsupportedBrowser.aspx Your Browser Is Currently Not Supported Your browser is not supported for use with this site. This site requires Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 or above on Windows platforms or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.1 or above on Macintosh platforms. You can download the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer by clicking the link below. Download the latest Microsoft Internet Explorer browser Your current browser: Netscape Version 5.0 Oh, and it even has a nice little "microsoft certified partner" logo on the site :) I'm going to spoof my user agent and see if the site works fine. I'm sure it will, that's for a future post though.