Re: IE6 hangs on loading ABCNEWS.COM ESPN.COM HSN.COM DISNEY.COM

From: Robert Aldwinckle (robald_at_techemail.com)
Date: 02/10/04 

Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:40:49 -0500

"jg70124" <jg70124 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:etGqhq57DHA.3288@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Robert,
>
> Here are my results, again.
>
> "Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@techemail.com> wrote in message
> news:e8dxid07DHA.1356@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
> ...snip...
>
> > > >
> > > On Orbitz, if I deny the first script prompt, I immediately get another.
> >
> > That is global.js that you are skipping.
> > The first two lines in there are:
> >
> > <extract>
> > self.onerror = function() {return true;}
> >
> > var agt=navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
> >
> > </extract>
> >
> >
> > So let's run that second line in the Address bar.
> > javascript:navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase()
> > What do you get with that? (I usually run just the property name
> > but in case the function has something to do with your problem
> > let's include it too.)
>
> mozilla/4.0 (compatible; msie 6.0; windows nt 5.1; .net clr 1.1.4322)
>
> >
> > Following that is some convoluted code which attempts to classify
> > the browser version and platform. I won't extract it here.
> > But my guess is that there will be something unusual about your
> > User Agent string which is causing this code to either pick the wrong
> > browser or platform or simply go off the rails and return nothing
> > (i.e., execute the first line of the two I extracted).
> >
> > If you want you could install the Script Debugger and check that
> > out for yourself. If you just want to identify which script file is
> involved
> > a simpler diagnostic procedure is to use FileMon (freeware from
> > SysInternals) to monitor for *.js accesses.
> >
> I ran that thing - didn't see any access to *.js at all. Lots of accesses
> by msimn.exe:3356 to my index.dat file though. And a bunch of calls from
> pccguide.exe:484 (Trend Micro PCcillin) to .../application
> data/mozilla/registry.dat
>
> Any of that make sense to you?

Yes. I suspect you aren't using a filter. ;o

In FileMon Press Ctrl-L and enter *.js into the Include: box

That means that you are only interested in seeing accesses of
files which have an extension of .js (JavaScript).

>
> > For related problems I often suggest that users visit
> >
> > < http://www.gemal.dk/browserspy/basic.html >
> >
> > That may be easier for you.
> >
> Ah, sorry - not sure what I'm supposed to be looking for on gemal's site.

If you're not seeing *anything* in the Settings column it means that we may
have isolated your problem to having something to do with executing
JavaScript. This seems unlikely because you can use those JavaScript
fragments in the Address bar and because you can see the rest of the
problem pages after you skip the first scripting prompt.

For example, I just ran it after denying use of Scripting. There was
one prompt and then I saw nothing in the Settings column but all the
labels in the Variables column.

Hmm... it looks as if that is all that this page is doing. I thought it was
also sending the UserAgent that it received so that we could check
if that was being stripped somewhere on the connection path.
Then we could compare the UserAgent which was sent with the
UserAgent which was received. I think that there are sites which do this.
Perhaps Mike or somebody else has a better link.

>
>
>
> Again, thanks for all the time you put in on this. I really appreciate it.
>
> Jeremy
>
>

Good luck

Robert 

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