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HTML content variation
A challenging problem. I've done a lot of troubleshooting. So please excuse
the lengthy discription, but I'm trying to narrow your thinking up-front. My laptop and desktop are highly similar environments (details below), but on (at least) one particular page of a web site, they receive slightly different html pages from virtually identical http-gets. Both machines have two browsers and both browsers behave the same on the misbehaving PC and both perform properly on the good PC machine. They all work properly on other pages from this web site. When I manually ompare the HTML source code received by the good machine and the bad one, there is always a one line difference between the downloads. The line is missing from the bad download. The line is always: h ref="/ads/"Adult Services /a When I manually move the properly received file onto the bad machine, it renders properly. When I manually move the improperly received file on the bad machine to the good machine, it renders the same as the bad machine. When I examine the http-get host header, I see only one parameter in the good machine's "get" that is not present in the bad machine's "get". That parameter is "infopath.1". I do not understand this parameter, nor how this difference could account for the different received files. At one time, Internet Content Advisor was enabled on the bad machine. My troublesheting has disabled it. But maybe the registry is out of sync for this application? This has been the focus of my troubleshooting, but I do not see how it could be responsible for different http responses. The two environments Both machines are running XP-SP3, updated to current levels both running IE-8 and Firefox, updated properly both PCS are on the same LAN segment. They are side by side in my office The bad machine is running Norton Internet Security 2006 and MS Office Suite 2002. The good machine is running Earthlink Protection Center v7 and MS Office Suite 2003 This problem is not intermittent. Either the server is delivering two different downloads, or something on my bad machine is intercepting the html and removing a line of code! I'm out of troubleshooting ideas !!! |
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