Internet Explorer on Linux

[sachin_kothari]

P.S. - Before anyone starts bashing me for posting this topic, let me tell you there are some sites which works only on IE. I needed to access one such site and while searching for solution came across this...

Before installing Internet Explorer you need to install the following packages
#apt-get install wine cabextract
Now youi need to download IEs4Linux script from here
$wget *www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/downloads/ies4linux-2.0.3.tar.gz
$tar xzvf ies4linux-2.0.3.tar.gz
$cd ies4linux-2.0.3
Once you are inside ies4linux-2.0.3 directory you need to run the following script to install internet explorer
$./ies4linux
This will install the internet explore in your machine and after the end of installation it will give you from where you need to run IE6.from my machine i am using the following
$/root/bin/ie6
This will open IE6 and you can see internet explorer in action

 

[nileshgr]

Install opera, go to that site, right click, select Edit Site Prefs. select Network Tab and select Identify as IE or Mask as IE instead of Identify as Opera.

 

[ray|raven]

@sachin_kothari
Why wud we want that **** in linux?
Most sites support all browsers now and if u got one that hangs on IE only, u can use the method suggested above.

Regards...
ray

 

[nileshgr]

Why wud we want that **** in linux?
Most sites support all browsers now and if u got one that hangs on IE only, u can use the method suggested above.

Regards...
ray

For Sites which support only Firefox or IE, i use it.

 

[sachin_kothari]

Install opera, go to that site, right click, select Edit Site Prefs. select Network Tab and select Identify as IE or Mask as IE instead of Identify as Opera.

i tried opening *10.240.240.195/webLogin.jsp with your method in opera. it did not worked for me. it gives me this error

Sorry, you cannot access portal because your explore is not Cookie-enabled.
Please set your exploreCookie-enabled, and access portal again!

This despite me enabling cookies in opera.

 

[ray|raven]

Doesnt even open for me.
What is it ur local isp login or something?

Regards...
ray

 

[sachin_kothari]

^^yes. its for checking the usage.
i use BSNL Broadband.
and it works ONLY in ie.

 

[QwertyManiac]

RayRaven - Yeah, its sort of BSNL's Dataone portal for checking usage etc.

@Sachin_Kothari - Try and avoid POS as much as possible, at least on Linux. Use the various Dataone scripts available (In Perl/Python, etc) and/or the addon for usage monitoring. The "Identify as IE" works for me, maybe you can try viewing the allowed cookies settings or something like that in Opera. I used a user agent switcher in Firefox instead ..

 

[sachin_kothari]

^^ i have set the cookies options in Opera to accept all cookies.

 

[nileshgr]

^^ i have set the cookies options in Opera to accept all cookies.

So does it work?

 

[praka123]

use the script if opera too doesnt work.for me Firefox can login,furthur it doesnt work.with opera (identified as opera) the page works very well.i use opera-static for Linux(dont want qt in the system )

 

[sachin_kothari]

So does it work?

it doesnt. gives same error message.

 

[praka123]

*10.240.64.195/nonie_webLogin.jsp
^ ^ try this on opera/ff2

 

[nileshgr]

*10.240.64.195/nonie_webLogin.jsp
^ ^ try this on opera/ff2

It doesn't open for me. I think it is for BSNL DSL users only. I use Relaince DSL.

 

[sachin_kothari]

*10.240.64.195/nonie_webLogin.jsp
^ ^ try this on opera/ff2

it works great.
thanks prakash for that link.

edit: in firefox i can only login. cant do anything else.
opera works fine.

 

[praka123]

^^ me too faces the same in firefox/iceweasel(debian)

 

[GNUrag]

It doesn't open for me. I think it is for BSNL DSL users only. I use Relaince DSL.

Because that's a 10. series of IP, which is private to BSNL maybe.

 

[anantkhaitan]

Try this Opening IE sites in firefox

 

[aryayush]

The normal DataOne portal works fine for me in Opera once I set it to be masked as Internet Explorer. I am using the Mac version of Opera though so there might be some difference, though I doubt there would be.

 

[praka123]

*10.240.64.195/nonie_webLogin.jsp
^ ^ try this on opera/ff2

this link works without masking as internet explorer.it is the default here in Kochin if i try *sancharnet.in/dataoneredirect.htm