[LINK] Westpac online banking goes west

[Howard Lowndes]

I think it is more likely that Westpac was down.  I had a client who uses
M$IE got an error when they tried to log into their account.

On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Greg Taylor wrote:

> At 08:00 AM 28/11/2001, Gordon Keith wrote:
> >I've been using Westpac's online banking regularly for over a year now
> >with konqueror without a problem (though I did have to turn cookies on).
> >
> >I went to use it yesterday and I can't even sign in anymore. I'm not
> >sure what changes they've made, but they don't provide any support for
> >browsers other than IE and Netscape 4.
>
> Still works fine in Opera 5.0 and 6.0 (which is available for both Windows
> and Linux).
>
> >Another online banking solution failure.
>
> I wouldn't jump to that conclusion without more facts.  Some banks require
> proprietary software/plugins to be installed.  Westpac's has always worked
> fine in my experience with standard browsers.
>
> Greg
>

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