Strange problem blocks some https web sites
- From: httpsproblem@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: 23 Aug 2006 19:42:07 -0700
I've already read the threads from other people with a similar problem,
but mine seems to be much more complicated to solve.
I am on Windows XP SP1. I use IE 6.0 and Netscape 7.2...both give me
the following:
1 - I can access some https (secure) web sites without any problem
2 - I cannot access other https web sites. (It's always the same sites
that give me the problem). (After waiting a long time, I get an error
message like "page cannot be displayed," "page contains no data," or
"no server response" depending on which web site and which browser.)
3 - other https sites can be accessed, but they are extremely slow to
respond
4 - some search pages on ebay.com and bestbuy.com encounter the same
problem as #2 even though they are not https, and even though other
search pages on the same web sites work
I used to be able to perform all of these activities without a problem.
The problems started out of the blue and were not preceded by any
changes to my system.
What differentiates my problem from the other posts is the following:
- I can eliminate the possibility that it is a network issue or problem
at the remote web server, since I have two PCs connected to the same
router/DSL modem/DSL line, and only one of the PCs has this problem.
- I frequently create Norton ghost images of my c: drive. As soon as
this problem started, I re-imaged my c: drive to restore an image that
was made before the problem started. When this didn't work, I
re-imaged to use the image before that. It still didn't work, and I
restored one more image. This brought me back to a c: drive that was
six months before the problem started, but the problem was still there.
My re-imaging automatically addressed the common recommendations to
address this sort of problem (eg, clear out the cache from IE, delete
cookies and files, clear history clear sll state, confirm ssl 2 and
sll3 are checked, scan for viruses, etc.), since it brings the c: drive
to a state where the cache, etc, were not causing a problem.
(Re-imaging is more reliable than Microsoft system restore, since the
image does the entire drive rather than just select files.) Even
though it should have been unnecessary given the re-image, I still did
all those things like clearing out the cash and scanning for viruses,
but it did not make a difference.
Does anybody have an idea on what sort of problem could be so stubborn
that it survives re-imaging?
Thank you
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