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[morleymouse]

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right just setting up a bit of a site for this and having a play about making sure links work and all that.

Tested the plain text link in IE 6... great works fine and gets you to a decent page.

Tested it in firefox and you get some error page "There appears to be a problem with the following:
There has been an error while processing your request."

it still sets the cookie but it just seems (if I was your average internet user) that the sites nackered.

Now just had a mate check the link, connecting via Virgin on both IE6 and Firefox again and he cant access with any of them. So sent him to
http://www.national-lottery.co.uk

And he cant even access that.

So, I could do with knowing exactly who can access the National Lottery site as it appears Virgin customers cant (prove me wrong).

If you can / cant access the national lottery site could you post please, ISP, broser version etc and ill fire something off to TD in t'mornin

[Ste]

Works for:

Tiscali ADSL - Firefox and IE 6
Enta ADSL - Firefox and IE 6

and crappy BT Dial-up

[morleymouse]

cheers Ste, more specifically in firefox can you try

http://www.national-lottery.co.uk/pl...ttoPlayslip.do

the URL of the number picking ticket chooser thing (where we make the sale) I still get an error.

[Ste]

Ditto Got the error message with Firefox and also got it with Mozilla 1.71.

Same with Enta and Tiscali.

So it looks like its not a Virgin problem.

[Ste]

Sorry forgot to add that it worked with IE 6.

Looks like the Lottery site is only compatible with IE.

Bit naughty that, think of all the customers who you could be missing out on.

[morleymouse]

SO its a firefox problem

But my guy on virgin tried it in IE as well and that didnt work.

Seems very selective over who can play.

by the way works for me on AOL dial-up

[Rich]

It worked OK in Opera 7.50 & 7.10 but failed in firefox. It is serving a different page to firefox, so I tried changed my firefox useragent to a standard IE one. It worked!

I expect they are just checking for MSIE 5 in the useragent, which Opera fakes, but firefox doesn't.

[morleymouse]

still doesn't explain why my mate couldnt get it on virgin, whatever he used

thats the main thing bothering me, not many people vary from IE but I imagine there are a fair few virgin customers

[Rich]

Could he have either spyware or security software that is modifying his useragent? If you've got access to raw logs from your sites, get him to access a page then look to see what useragent is being sent.

[Ste]

Just tried and I could'nt get it to work in Opera. The version is 7.11

Morleymouse, What are ther coversions like with the program, if you don't mind sharing?

[morleymouse]

Ste: you can ask....



lol, havn't given it a go yet really. Just making a few pages and that (new site) to give it a go. Only got accepted other day.

Rich: Hes more paranoid about spyware and such than affiliates are so I dont imagine its that. But hes wandered off now so cant get him to check

[Frostie]

Was pending for over 1 month and now...

We will review rejected applications on an ongoing basis. If this content changes for any reason, Camelot would be happy to re-evaluate your application.

Hehehehe, BREAKING NEWS!!!!
National Lottery - I will re-evaluate whether I can actualy be bothered even thinking about joining your program. Infact I have thought about it and erm... no!

Now then, where is Littlewoods and Vernons gone again....MUUUuuhahahaha

[loquax]

We got accepted today for a finance site.... obviously someone looking for a credit card is going to want to play the lottery - whilst someone interested in winning stuff, playing games online and having a flutter doesn't....



Jason

[bizwizard]

It's a lottery whether the site is working or not. This is the only prog I have ever had complaints about. It's up and down like a call girl's mattress!
I persevered with it for three weeks ...then dumped it.

Regards

Jim

[Mogga]

The lottery site gets shut when the draws are taking place doesn't it?