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03-28-2003, 10:44 AM
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Puzzling Problem
hopefully someone can help. I'm running Windows xp professional, and i'm having a problem viewing one web page. If i type in the URL in AOL, it shows up fine, but if i try to open the site using IE, it doesn't show up. Where it's puzzling is that my computer at work loads the page fine, but my computer at home gives me the Page Cannot be Displayed or somthing to that effect. It does this even when i have my Security settings set to low, and all cookies alloud (and no I don't have any parental lock settings on). I figured it was a problem with IE so i downloaded Opera 7.
03, but The same thing happened. So the next day at work I dl Opera on my computer at work, and it showed up fine! So it has to be somthing wrong with my comuter at home (although it works on the AOL browser on my home computer) can someone help me? |
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03-28-2003, 10:49 AM
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the page could have some aol-specific encoding. LIke with a jpeg, if you download it using Netscape, and it was uploaded using netscape, you can only open it with netscape.
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03-28-2003, 10:52 AM
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it wouldn't have that though, and if that was the case, it wouldn't show up on my computer at work. it's a site by playstation, for the gamer advisory pannel. it works on my computer at work, on all web browsers (AOL, IE, Opera) but on my computer at home it only works on AOL, which totally sucks cause i hate AOL's web browser.
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03-28-2003, 10:55 AM
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A jpeg is just a picture, it doesn't matter what browser was used to upload it, or view it. I doubt very much that it's "AOL-specific encoding"... I have a hunch that it's the "Hosts" file causing the problem in IE. |
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03-28-2003, 11:00 AM
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but if it was on the sites end then wouldn't it effect my computer at work? and also, if it was a host problem with IE then why would it do the same thing on Opera (at home, Opera at work shows it fine)
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03-28-2003, 11:38 AM
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what is the url?
my thought is a defaulted animation setting that XP has taken as "Always use the MS tool" and the animation can not use that... |
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03-28-2003, 12:02 PM
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it's www.shape.us.playstation.com
it works at work, but not at home (unless i'm using AOL's browser) |
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03-28-2003, 12:14 PM
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Other than being a dreadfully slow site, it could be that AOL's cache proxy is where it's loading from, instead of the real host, and thus AOL works, but IE/Opera don't. They simply timeout.
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03-28-2003, 12:17 PM
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if thats the case how would i go about fixing it?
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03-29-2003, 10:15 AM
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The only real way to fix it is get a different ISP. AOL channels everything through their caching proxies.
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