Internet Explorer on Linux

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

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.

@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

rayraven said:
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.

The Unknown said:
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

Code:

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.

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

Regards...
ray

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

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 ..

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

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

So does it work?

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

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The Unknown said:
So does it work?

it doesnt. gives same error message.

*10.240.64.195/nonie_webLogin.jsp
^

^ try this on opera/ff2

praka123 said:
*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.

praka123 said:
*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.

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

The Unknown said:
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.

Try this Opening IE sites in firefox

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 said:
*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

There is something called IETab in Firefox na ..? Doesnt it work on nix ..??

Internet Explorer for UNIX

I know that M$ earlier released IE5 for UNIX.
*en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_UNIX

IETab is not available for Linux

*addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

yeah.how can it work when ie is not for Linux and not installed

Blah .. I thought it emulated IE's engine .. Anyway I dont use Firefox so dont much know about it ..

[Edit] Aaaila .. That IE works on HP UX ..?? Hmmmmmm hmmmmmmmmmm

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ... ....

Try User Agent Switcher

Even konqueror will work I guess.. It has an option called browser identification change that and it should work.