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IE8 cannot connect to one website
Problem with www.sciencenews.org and ONLY on www.sciencenews.org.
It is a https site. XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Settings between XP IE8 and W7/32 IE8 using IE tools panel are identical. Running XP3 IE in safe mode still will not connect to website. Suggestions wanted for fixing the xp3 no connect. |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Problem with www.sciencenews.org and ONLY on www.sciencenews.org. It is a https site. XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Settings between XP IE8 and W7/32 IE8 using IE tools panel are identical. Running XP3 IE in safe mode still will not connect to website. Suggestions wanted for fixing the xp3 no connect. The analysis here, predicts the same thing. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/anal...ciencenews.org It could be related to protocol fallback behavior. Paul |
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Paul wrote:
Paul in Houston TX wrote: Problem with www.sciencenews.org and ONLY on www.sciencenews.org. It is a https site. XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Settings between XP IE8 and W7/32 IE8 using IE tools panel are identical. Running XP3 IE in safe mode still will not connect to website. Suggestions wanted for fixing the xp3 no connect. The analysis here, predicts the same thing. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/anal...ciencenews.org It could be related to protocol fallback behavior. Paul Thank you Paul. Reading about "protocol fallback behavior" now. I'll call SciNews after Jan 1 to discuss. |
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| If you consider Google's Chrome to be too erm... instrusive (with it's
| tracking), then check out SR-Ware's Iron ... | http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php | I'd be interested to hear thoughts on this from people who've tried it or other chromium derivatives. It might save some time in researching and trying out the products. In general I've avoided Chrome for just about every reason: spyware, auto-search, built-in Flash, minimalism... Can I even get a menu and remove tabs in a chromium browser? The Google design aspects remind me of why I don't like Macs (in addition to the high price): I don't like the product designer deciding how I should use the product and blocking my control. My sense has been that Chrome is attractive to people who are "consumers" -- shopping and Facebooking with no concern for privacy and no interest in understanding anything under the surface. In other words, sitting ducks for Google's strategic herding and spyware. In that respect, Iron looks interesting. Thoughts or comments based on experience, anyone? |
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On 12/24/2014 02:36 PM, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Problem with www.sciencenews.org and ONLY on www.sciencenews.org. It is a https site. XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Settings between XP IE8 and W7/32 IE8 using IE tools panel are identical. Running XP3 IE in safe mode still will not connect to website. Suggestions wanted for fixing the xp3 no connect. Though I do not know why IE8 cannot connect and cannot guess your reason for wanting to use Internet Explorer...I assume you have some reason for doing so. The only thing I can suggest is to give the Maxthon browser a try. It uses the components of Internet Explorer but is generally reviewed favorably as compared to IE. |
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philo* wrote in :
XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Seems odd to me that IE8 in w7 can connect while the XP iteration cannot. I'd imagine you've done all the "clear the cache and cookies" type of things. Add ons? Ad blockers? Hosts file? Internet settings? -- Pat email: phartzATcoxDOTnet |
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Phantom Post wrote:
philo wrote in : XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Seems odd to me that IE8 in w7 can connect while the XP iteration cannot. I'd imagine you've done all the "clear the cache and cookies" type of things. Add ons? Ad blockers? Hosts file? Internet settings? WinXP cannot have any SSL/TLS logic patched (no more Windows Updates added), whereas the other OSes can. Maybe it's some service the browser calls, rather than code in the browser itself ? There was even an Schannel patch for the other OSes, which wasn't made available for WinXP. To get that, you might have to tweak your OS so it can use the POS (Point Of Sale version of WinXP), to get some patches. That's if you're into that sort of thing. Paul |
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On 12/25/2014 03:17 PM, Paul wrote:
WinXP cannot have any SSL/TLS logic patched (no more Windows Updates added), whereas the other OSes can. Maybe it's some service the browser calls, rather than code in the browser itself ? There was even an Schannel patch for the other OSes, which wasn't made available for WinXP. To get that, you might have to tweak your OS so it can use the POS (Point Of Sale version of WinXP), to get some patches. That's if you're into that sort of thing. Paul FWIW: I did confirm the same thing with IE8 using both XP 32 bit and XP 64 bit However Maxthon did work and since it uses the components of IE is probably going to do the job for the OP.. I can even get into Microsoft's "Internet Explorer only" pages by using Maxthon on my Linux machine. On Linux of course it does not use IE components but evidently spoofs it pretty well. |
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On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 2:36:35 PM UTC-6, Paul in Houston TX wrote:
Problem with www.sciencenews.org and ONLY on www.sciencenews.org. It is a https site. XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Settings between XP IE8 and W7/32 IE8 using IE tools panel are identical. Running XP3 IE in safe mode still will not connect to website. Suggestions wanted for fixing the xp3 no connect. No problem with Firefox 24.6 or SeaMonkey 2.30. |
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On Wednesday, December 24, 2014 4:20:02 PM UTC-6, Paul wrote:
Paul in Houston TX wrote: Problem with www.sciencenews.org and ONLY on www.sciencenews.org. It is a https site. XP3: IE8 will NOT connect to the website: "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage". "It appears you are connected to the Internet, but you might want to try to reconnect to the Internet. Same machine as above, XP3 Sea Monkey 1119 CAN view website. w7/32 IE8 CAN view website. w7/64 IE9 CAN view website. Settings between XP IE8 and W7/32 IE8 using IE tools panel are identical. Running XP3 IE in safe mode still will not connect to website. Suggestions wanted for fixing the xp3 no connect. The analysis here, predicts the same thing. https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/anal...ciencenews.org It could be related to protocol fallback behavior. Paul http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/09/mi...l-3-0-removal/ |
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A follow-up on Iron, in case anyone's curious.
I asked for opinions before taking the time to try it myself, but no one answered. I finally got around to trying Iron. I'd say it's easily the worst browser I've ever looked at. (Though I never tried Chrome long enough to compare the two in detail.) I didn't even try Iron online. There were too many problems to want to get that far. * First, it's 3 times the size of Firefox. (150 MB!) (Yes, hard disks are giant these days. But bloated design is not a good sign. Whether I have space to store the bloat is neither here nor there.) * Second, there are no GUI controls at all. I can't get rid of tabs. I can't get a menu. I assume there's no status bar, but didn't get that far. I *can* have a bookmarks toolbar. How bizarre! I can't even get back/forward buttons but I can get a pointless bookmarks toolbar. The flat Metro-esque design is unhelpful and distracting. A program with a "skin" or otherwise gimmicky UI should always, also, provide an option for a normal Windows UI and not impose preferences. That's always been one of the best things about Windows: Aside from a handful of music players or other entertainment software, nearly all Windows programs are designed to respect one's UI preferences. Some people like the sparse design of hiding all options behind a 3-bar button, but that shouldn't be forced. I don't see any advantage in the extra steps required to access things. I do see an advantage in having a traditional menubar with a traditional layout, so that I know where to look for things. * What settings there are provide no explanations and are poorly laid out. Local data settings seem to include both cookies and "supercookie" data storage, but there's really no way to know. The whole settings UI seems to have been designed by Apple people: lots of space; few options; no explanations. Altogether a very Steve Jobsian job: "No, we don't allow you to control the software, but isn't it beautiful in its pseudo-Zennie sparseness?" Well, yes, I suppose it is... sort of... a little bit... if what I wanted was a greeting card and not a software settings UI. * There seem to be a number of settings for sharing and allowing websites to do things such as controlling a microphone or camera. None of those settings are explained and most default to insecure options. * Despite claiming to be more private than Chrome, Iron still seems to be very Google-connected, including functionality to "log into Iron using your Google ID". Why in the world would anyone want to log in to a browser website? Why does Iron default to trying to reach its homepage when the browser starts, without asking? How could one hope to be free of Google spying if one "logs in" and maintains a Google ID? What would be the point? Allowing Google cookies will allow Google to spy on one's activities at most websites, anyway, so why bother avoiding Chrome in that case? I was curious to try WebKit in terms of browser functionality, but the package is so bad that I think I've cured that curiosity for awhile. (I've heard so much bad about Safari that I've never even tried that, and have no reason to think that Apple might provide a usable product.) And since Chrome requires a complete rebuild to purge Google spyware from the program libraries, I'm thinking that the whole Chrome/Chromium idea is just not a very good one in the first place. Beginning software development with an extensive repair job doesn't make much sense. Anyway.... my 2 cents. For anyone with sensibilities similar to my own, perhaps I've saved you some time. |
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