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***mandy*** · 10-18-2006, 07:59 AM,

Quote:Online auction giant eBay is continually upgrading and supplementing its services, and that means frequent users periodically discover something new when they log in -- integrated PayPal, new messaging tools, and so on. I am one of those frequent users, and I recently discovered that the latest update to one of the core auction tools locks out Linux users.

Linux is the only element that triggers faulty behavior from the Sell Your Item form. None of the Linux browsers I tried worked correctly, and all of the browsers I tried on the other operating systems worked fine.

More importantly, whatever the cause of the trouble, it is definitely on eBay's end. I found that if I used Firefox's User Agent Switcher extension and set the User Agent string to Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP, suddenly the form behaved properly.

Now that's just not nice. There is no technical reason why the new Sell Your Item shouldn't work on Linux, and it is restricting users on the basis of their operating system, not their browser...

full article: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/17/2049202