WINE firefox can browse the net except it "can't find the server at movies.netflix.com"

This worked rather well until recently. I suspect it's intentional and netflix somehow knows were on wine and figured out a way to block the Linux users. I'm about to just drop Netflix since they don't want us as customers. I have tried on Debian and Xubunt with a few different loads and it just will not work now after I login to Netflix.

Sorry I didn't reply to this earlier, I started a new job recently and haven't had time to keep up with this. Have you tried clearing out your profile folder (rm -Rf ~/.wine-browser)? Everything still works fine for me, so I suspect that creating a new profile may fix your problem.

Yes. That worked before when Firefox was trying to update but that's not even the issue any more.
Now after a fresh install of XUbuntu or Debian I get this same issue where everything seems fine up to the login on netflix. Then as soon as I sign in the browser goes right to server not found. I tested and I can browse the internet on it so it's netflix stopping the connection.

At that point when you login It's not even trying to use Silverlight. So it should load just like any website until you click on a movie. I'm not sure what the problem is if it isn't Netflix blocking wine users.

Thank you for your answers :-) I can now see that I'm not the only one,
and it most likely isn't a WINE issue. It's Netflix being douches.. which
sucks because you are meeting their min. sys. req... right down to the
legal use of the Sliverlight exe. How the frack do they know I don't have
a genuine XP disk here with which I primed my WINE..? They DON'T. X86
arch of 1.5GHz or faster, WInXP, Silverlight.. This browser does work with
all other sites, BTW so as I said before, it IS getting to the outside
world and streaming media just fine..

They suck. So, any ideas besides Hulu and its commercials like every ten
seconds.. for streaming movie services which will work with Linux?

Bolton

Siiigh... No computer will ever be as awesome as my Amiga 3000 Tower with
233MHz Cyberstorm PPC accelerator and Cybervision 3D graphics card..

On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 6:51 AM, FTZ <email address hidden>wrote:

> Your question #229828 on Netflix Desktop changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/netflix-desktop/+question/229828
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> FTZ posted a new comment:
> At that point when you login It's not even trying to use Silverlight. So
> it should load just like any website until you click on a movie. I'm not
> sure what the problem is if it isn't Netflix blocking wine users.
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Another update, If I load Netflix in Firefox (Not WINE Firefox) I get the same thing. Now I know for a fact I use to be able to use any browser in Linux and browse Netflix after I login. I just couldn't watch anything.

What country are you in and what ISP do you have? It's possible that there's something country or ISP specific going on. I still don't see any issues, but I'm using Comcast in the US.

I'm in Iowa. Mediacom internet. Things work in Windows fine althought I have not tried it in a few months from Windows since I removed that malware from my computer. Works on my WII and IPad and droid phone and TV on the same connection. So it appears to redirect to Page not found only if I login from a Linux box. Wine or no Wine. It was working fine a couple weeks ago when I tried it then all the sudden it went to page not found.

Well, the only way they have to "detect" Wine at that level (for the website to not show at all) is the user agent string (which actually reports Windows). You could try adding in a plugin to change the user agent string to see if that resolves the situation, but I highly doubt that they're blocking Firefox because that would probably be a violation of federal law...

I'm in Rexburg, Idaho, noticing the same thing. Firefox browses fine in WINE or Ubuntu, but won't go to movies.netflix.com in EITHER. Chrome will still browse netflix just fine like always, though of course you can't actually watch anything. I'm somewhat of a linux noob (and even more so with WINE) but I thought to try running Chrome in WINE to see what happens. Install doesn't seem to be working though. If somebody more skilled than I wanted to test that (or tell me that chrome and WINE don't get along and to give up on it) that might help in getting a better diagnosis.

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Please try this suggestion ( https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=168154 ):
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1) Enter 'about:config' in the location bar and then toggle the following dns/ipv6 settings as follows:

    a) Set network.dns.disableIpv6 to True (Default is False)
    b) Set network.dns.disablePreFetch to True (Default is False)

2) Next you need to turn off and Network Proxy Access in Firefox
(See Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Network/Settings) - Set to 'No Proxy'.

3) Clear out and existing cache and history data that may have been saved already.

4) Modify the browser auto update flag - set to 'Never Check for updates'

5) Check if you have any web caching service running on your desktop. Disable it if it is running.

Restart your browser and you should now be able to access the server.
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( Info found from the bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/netflix-desktop/+bug/1210911 )

Please let me know if this works (preferably at the bug, which does not auto-expire and seems to always send me update emails).

I just did number one and it works now.

That did it for me Erich... Thanks so much.