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Old Mar 28, 2014 | 7:49 am
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Originally Posted by Lurker1999
As posted on their home page:

[Awards-Upgrades/UA] Method 27 Mar 2014
Please note that this Method is no longer available.

That was really the only reason I purchased KVS subscription. Makes that last month of the subscription a little worthless.
I have 4.5mo on my subscription left which are now rendered worthless.

Originally Posted by Starman
I believe your quarrel is with United Airlines. KVS sold you a product that they clearly labeled as a specialty web browser, used to access data provided by others. Surely we all knew that the database with upgrade and award availability belongs to UA, not KVS. It appears United has taken steps to block access to parts of its data base when this browser is used. Do you blame Microsoft or Mozilla when Internet Explorer or Firefox cannot successfully connect to a web page that the owner has removed, even though your software works as designed?
If I recall, when you sent an HTTP request, you can manually specify any browser type. I had thought that KVS looks like IE. And you are using the browser from your own computer accessing the same pages that we manually do. So I don't think UA can specifically block KVS technically. Maybe by sending a threatening letter to them telling them to remove the feature.

Last edited by eng3; Mar 28, 2014 at 7:54 am
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