[oclug] Re: no Linux support

[Jeff 'Mutt' East]

Paul Dowman and Quicktaxweb.ca technical staff:

	I am very pleased to say I have used your Linux-served service with
my Linux-based computer, and all went well, including the Netfile upload.  I
was pleased with the experience, especially the fine PDF download copy for
my records, and would use your service again.  I will mention my success to
people I know.

	There is at least one other web browser that has javascript,
cookies, and 128 bit encryption that you might want to consider allowing use
of next year:  Opera.  I did not try your Quicktime videos.


Technical feedback for the future:
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To actually sign in, I had to do one more trick.  

On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 12:47:33PM -0700, QuickTaxWeb wrote:
> Paul Dowman,
> QuickTaxWeb Developer
> https://www.quicktaxweb.ca/secure/signin

	Going to that URL, I was told I didn't have 128 bit encryption
(which I do have).  I had to do the browser check, and when it failed, I
re-wrote the URL to be:

https://www.quicktaxweb.ca/secure/browserhelp?b=true&c=true&a=false&q=false

...then I was able to proceed.

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Also, some cookie annoyances.  These cookies had no affect: I got warnings
about them not being present each time I reconnected...

www.quicktaxweb.ca      FALSE   /secure FALSE   1001822400      acrobatcheck    no
www.quicktaxweb.ca      FALSE   /secure FALSE   1001822400	quicktimecheck  no

But I did edit one of my cookies to:
 
www.quicktaxweb.ca      FALSE   /secure FALSE   1001822400      acrobat yes

...since I had no acrobat plugin for Netscape, but did want to *ensure* your
site would give me a PDF file I could download for my viewer.  This also
meant that, subsequently, only the Quicktime warning came up each time I
reconnected.
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