[Bug 19653] Purchasing games in steam does not work

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19653





--- Comment #3 from Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com>  2010-02-23 16:06:54 ---
http://www.leenukes.co.uk/?p=109 claims to have a workaround:

"The problem appears to be with the Wine implementation of iexplorer. The issue
is you can click on the purchase button as often as you like, but it won’t take
you to anywhere.

I’m running wine 1.1.5 and Fedora 10 Beta

My solution is thus:

Using your web browser in Linux (outside of wine) goto the Steam 
page and goto http://store.steampowered.com

Navigate to the game you wish to purchase and click on purchase, for example
I’m buying Garrys Mod so I search for it and click purchase.

It then presents you with a Got Steam? popup.

With that window selected press Ctrl+U to view the source, you’re looking for a
section like this:

class="gotSteam_yes" onmouseover="this.className='gotSteam_yes_ovr';"
onmouseout="this.className='gotSteam_yes';"
onclick="opener.location.href='steam://purchase/218'; window.close();"
>Yes, I already have
Steam installed!

The important bit is the onclick section.

Copy the bit between the ” ’s ” so for my game, Garrys Mod, its:

steam://purchase/218

This is a trigger for steam to navigate to the purchase game section.

Now we know where to get the game, we can instruct Internet Explorer in Wine to
open it, the command for my setup is:

env WINEPREFIX=~/.wine wine "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe"
steam://purchase/218

This will then trigger Steam to load and prompt you with the 
purchase section.
Job done. Its a bit of a pain, but how often do you buy games really?"

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