[ILUG] Revenue on Line Service - Tax returns Only Windows or Mac supported

[Robert Synnott]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004 15:43:50 +0100, Paul O'Malley <ompaul at eircom.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 14:22, PET RONIUS wrote:
> > The revenue online service also states that it is support IE and Netscape, not Mozilla or Opera, surely if its more to do with cookies and digital signatures and how the browser handles them rather than actual Operating specific functionality.
> > Perhaps if they can have their arms twisted to support other browsers they may discover that that enables linux users use their service!
> >
> >
> > ríomhphost: petronius at o2.ie
> Hi,
> 
> For one of the versions I believe that it requires to save a certificate
> at location X where X = C:\
> 
> I do not know how it handles Mac.
> Maybe we could samba a partition and make it happen I don't know. It may
> be an x509 cert with some java stuff going on.
> 
> Anyone with access to such a box care to comment?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> 
> Paul O'Malley
> 

Hey, first of all, it does seem to insist on C:\. Also, it installs a
thingy which is obstenibly Java but doesn't seem to work on Linux (or
MacOSX, incidentally). Possibly it uses native code... Was anyone
tried this with Crossover Office, by the way? That can do IE,
certainly, so maybe it can do this as well...
Rob