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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Noticed this in the web-browser first, being redirected to a full screen bandwidth [and CPU cycles] eating slideshow on sign-out. Fine, but you just made my Office 2010/2013/2016 topple in the chart generation and hunting tool application, telling me my web-browser, including the new dog called Edge are out of date. They are -NOT-.
Thank you for applying an ASAP fix. |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Sekerob - can you send an email with a screen shot to support@worldcommunitygrid.org? I cannot reproduce what you are experiencing.
thanks, Kevin |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Also - what web browser are you using that it is telling you is out of date (aside from edge) - and please send a screen shot for each.
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
In Office you are forced to use the IE render engine [No way to change this]. If logging in via Office always get asked if IE should remember password, though my default browser is FF (41.02 I think)... no thank you. Not tried it on W10 with 2016 yet, but suppose there it just uses Edge.
The message is broad, Firefox, Safari, IE, some other brand I've never touched, Chrome, and Edge as the last in the list. The only way to proceed is to close the windows and manually reopen, which then shows the WCG front page. FF is set to autodestruct cookies upon tab close. This is the only way to actually be able to sign out [yes that bug is still around, being signed in and the forums telling you to log-in... you can't make it up]. |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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I'm confused. I don't understand what you mean by "logging in via Office". Can you clarify the setup that you are using?
Are you seeing this behavior on any native browsers or just when going through Office? Can you go this website https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending and let us know what headers are being sent for each browser that you are experiencing this issue with? thanks, Kevin |
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Former Member
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I'm only seeing this at the first connect to the website. Connecting to www.worldcommunitygrid.org displays http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/discover.action#what-if as the first screen. Not seeing it at sign-out. Also not getting any out-of-date messages.
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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@Doneske - That is the intended behaviour. The "discover" page is intended to be an improved explanation of World Community Grid to new visitors to our site. We just started an A/B test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A/B_testing) using that new page and we are looking to see the impact and new registrations. It will take us about a week to know the results.
The discover page will show the first time you come to the home page within a browsing session. It should not show again until the next time you close and re-open your browser. The discover page is written in a way that doesn't support IE 9 and lower (less than 1% of our users use a IE browser at version 9 or older). I suspect that the way Sekerob is viewing the website through an Office product is causing it to render through an older version of the IE browser. Once he is able to report what the headers are from website I referenced, I'll know for sure. Meanwhile, I'm going to prevent that page from being put in front of the home page for users of IE 9 and lower. |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
I'm confused. I don't understand what you mean by "logging in via Office". Can you clarify the setup that you are using? Are you seeing this behavior on any native browsers or just when going through Office? Can you go this website https://www.whatismybrowser.com/detect/what-http-headers-is-my-browser-sending and let us know what headers are being sent for each browser that you are experiencing this issue with? thanks, Kevin Yes, only see this in Office. The IE of this W7-64 is v11. FF is 41.02 In order to get to 'scrape' the MC History and device statistics into Office [yes we still scrape because there's no verification code extension or xml=true for these pages], you use the Data Connect feature 'From Web'. You paste the address into the bare minimum screen, and then tell it how to pull the page, unformatted, rich text, full html [you need full html to get at the device id numbers in the urls to come with each device], but before that the standard WCG log in screen is required to pass. Anyway, when done with importing the page, you sign out, which is when the 'your browser is not up to snuff' white page with big lettered text shows up, i.e. whatever engine your slides require, 2010, or 2013 or 2016 is not having it, at that point the scripts die [and I'm not going to sit here doing it hands on each cycle]. Your website link on various loads gave different count of headers, one time 8, one time 7 and warning of mixed https/http elements and java warnings, also claiming that was out of date [it is not, have version 7, update 75]. As it specifically asks if IE should be saving the password, I'd expect it to use IE when doing this in office, and knowing MS, it's highly unlikely they'd do this using any other 'default' browser. In 2016 they even push the revolting Bing down your throat. Why it claims there's Mozilla 4, when having 41.0.2 [offering to upgrade now to 42] is beyond me. WhatIsMyBrowser.com Detect Guides Blog Developers API About Homepage > Detect > What HTTP Headers is my browser sending? What HTTP Headers is my browser sending? Every time your web browser opens a web page, it sends a "request" for that page. Part of that request includes a series of "headers". Here is the list of all the headers your browser sent when requesting this page. There were 7 headers sent: ACCEPT text/html, text/plain, text/xml ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate CONNECTION Keep-Alive COOKIE __utma=12798129.289808169.1446588120.1446588120.1446588120.1; __utmb=12798129.3.10.1446588120; __utmz=12798129.1446588120.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); __utmt=1; __utmc=12798129 HOST www.whatismybrowser.com UA_CPU AMD64 USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; GWX:DOWNLOADED; ms-office) These headers may vary from site to site (in particular the HOST and COOKIE headers!) depending on your settings. If you're curious and want to learn more about HTTP (a protocol which the World Wide Web relies on) and HTTP Headers, please read the Wikipedia pages on Hypertext Transfer Protocol and List of HTTP header fields. More questions? If you have any more questions, use the contact form and we'll answer it and add your question here. Ads by Google Ads by Google Ads by Google Popular Guides How to enable JavaScript Guides about the Internet Why should I update my browser? Tools Use our IFrame on your site User agent parser Use the API Send browser info via email Developers How this site can help you Unknown user agent fragments Development Blog Connect @whatismybrowser Contact Us Media / Press Kit Privacy Policy & Terms WhatIsMyBrowser.com © 2010 - 2015 |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; Trident/7.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; SLCC2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729; Media Center PC 6.0; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; GWX:DOWNLOADED; ms-office)
That means that we are dealing with IE 7 here. I will add that to the list of browsers that we won't send to the discover page. |
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knreed
Former World Community Grid Tech Joined: Nov 8, 2004 Post Count: 4504 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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For the tool you developed - are you scrapping the following:
User History by Date User's Devices Device History by Date Or is there more? |
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