Mac's and ASP

[HateEternal]

I work as a computer tech for the campus that i attend school at. We use a ticking system by Network Associates(i think) called Magic. I don't really like how it works all that much but it does its job. My problem with Magic is that I can't get the damn thing to work with a Mac. The closest I have got is with IE 5.2 the login window comes up but when I hit enter it doesn't do anything but refresh the login window. In any other browser the login window doesn't even come up. Magic is all written in asp as far as I know.

As far as I know it is magic that is causing the problem, however it is possible that the login script isn't part of magic and whoever wrote that didn't think about getting it to run on a Mac. I think one of the other guys that I work with said that it doesn't run on any Mozilla based browsers on PC's either so maybe it is something that IE 6.0 has that IE 5.2 doesn't.

Does any one else here use Magic at their work place and have it working on a Mac? I would really like to replace the PC that I use with a blue and white G3 running panther that is just sitting there. Not only would I enjoy using the Mac more than the PC it would also piss off all the other techs that work there to see me using a Mac.

 

[mdnky]

Chances are they programmed it (limited it) for IE-Win only browsers, probably 5+ versions. Those chances go up big time when the program is done in ASP instead of PHP or CFM or etc.

 

[Captain Code]

You're not just opening the ASP files in the browser right?
ASP files are hosted by Microsoft IIS.

The login page probably uses VBScript which is a Windows IE only thing. It does the same thing as Javascript except it allows you to call Windows ActiveX objects(huge security risk).

If you view the source of the page, look for something like

<script language="VBScript">...

and if you see something like that then there is your problem.

You can probably get away with rewriting the vbscript with Javascript because they are both run on the client web browser and usually both can do almost identical functions.

 

[btoth]

Does the system use VBScript for client-side scripting instead of javascript?

*** Edit ***

Haha, posted that at the same time.

 

[HateEternal]

the login window is called using javascript function showModalDialog, which i dont believe works with mozilla based browsers.

The rest i have yet to figure out.