Re: Problems with access to a web page

Sorry, you must think you are dealing with the least technically-minded
person on the planet but I'm completely lost now with all the ping stuff (I
have no idea what it is). So, I searched on the Windows Help and Support
(C:\WINDOWS\Help\tcpip.chm::/sag_TCPIP_pro_Ping.htm) and after folllowing the
instructions I got this on my command prompt:

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Jo>ipconfig

Windows IP Configuration


Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection:

Media State . . . . . . . . . . . : Media disconnected

PPP adapter Tesco broadband:

Connection-specific DNS Suffix . :
IP Address. . . . . . . . . . . . : 82.2.18.115
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255
Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 82.2.18.115

C:\Documents and Settings\Jo>


The help page says "ensure that the network adapter for the TCP/IP
configuration you are testing is not in a Media disconnected state." but
doesn't tell you what to do if to ensure you don't get that! As you can see
by what's on my command prompt, I got "Media State . . . . . . . . . . . :
Media disconnected".

I hope you can make it a bit clearer for me, I'm sure we can find what's
wrong somewhere, i just have no idea where to find it.

Many thanks :)


"Robert Aldwinckle" wrote:

> "Hipfidelity" <Hipfidelity@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:FD228FA4-380E-4448-9394-4983659E1B6A@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Thanks :) OK, I got the blank screen and entered
> >
> > GET http://s6.invisionfree.com/UK_The_Rasmus/Index.php
> >
> > ...but then when I pressed enter I just got the black command screen with 3
> > lines on it (what was actually written there I have no idea because as with
> > my writing it didn't show up on screen). Hmm.......
>
> Yes. It looks as if it has changed since my first test.
> In fact I was only able to get anything out of it by changing
> the simulation by: appending HTTP/1.1 to the GET request
> and by adding HOST: s6.invisionfree.com as another header
> Even that was not enough to get it to respond normally and I had
> to give it an extra Enter. But then I got this which was hardly
> what I expecting:
>
> <example from="the capture file">
> GET http://s6.invisionfree.com/UK_The_Rasmus/Index.php HTTP/1.1
> HOST: s6.invisionfree.com
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 16:46:50 GMT
> Server: Apache
> Content-Length: 0
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
> </example>
>
> It's probably waiting for a User-Agent: header now too.
>
> Ha! Look what I get now when I send the exact same request
> that IE sends:
>
> <example>
> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:11:56 GMT
> Server: Apache
> Content-Encoding: gzip
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Content-Length: 26
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
>
> ??? ?
>
> Connection to host lost.
> </example>
>
> I took out *only* this line
> <example>
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> </example>
> and got exactly the same 0 length response
> that I showed above from an even more reduced
> simulation attempt.
>
>
> Something has definitely changed. (E.g. response is now compressed
> instead of being clear text.)
>
> You will probably be better off then tracing the normal request
> made by IE and examining an actual response to it.
> I use netcap (from the XP Support Tools) but Ethereal's PCAP
> utility also works as a capture tool. I use Ethereal to format a
> captured trace in any case. Note that if they are using compression
> now you won't be able to read anything and so you will have less
> of an idea if stuff is being truncated but if you can do the same test
> on two machines, one which works normally and a problem case,
> you should be able to get something (e.g. lengths) to compare with.
>
>
> Have you tried the MTU check yet? Ping at least still works
> with the server you have chosen to test.
>
>
> Good luck
>
> Robert
> ---
>
>
>
.

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