Re: FIX - Back button problems when using a customized HOSTS file
From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 09/01/04
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Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:55:50 -0500
Thanks.
-- Frank Saunders, MS-MVP, IE/OE Please respond in Newsgroup only. Do not send email http://www.fjsmjs.com Protect your PC http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/ "User" <googlegroups99@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:be158184.0409010715.764884af@posting.google.com > My apologies if this has been posted before, but in searching for an > answer myself, I just couldn't find anything. For a quick background, > I have two XP machines (currently SP1) running IE6. I use the HOSTS > file provided by mvps.org, which has done a great job of blocking a > lot of unwanted content. However, I have experienced the Back button > issue described by others, where the browser doesn't actually take you > to the previous page (due to the fact 127.0.0.1 was loaded in between > the two pages). Anyway, I was only having this problem on one of the > two machines and couldn't figure out the difference between the > machines. > > Finally I've tracked this down to a setting on the Advanced Tab of > IE's settings. There is an entry named "Show friendly HTTP error > messages." This was checked on the machine having Back button issues > but not on the other. Once unchecked, I have not had any more issues. > Relief at last. > > For some additional detail, I found that when this setting is checked, > the URL of the blocked content started with: > > res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\shdoclc.dll/dnserror.htm# > > while when unchecked it changes to: > > res://C:\WINDOWS\System32\shdoclc.dll/navcancl.htm# > > Don't know if this will be useful to anyone else. Thought I'd post in > case it is. And while I assume it will work for others, I've only > proven this on a couple of machines.
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