Re: Yahoo News Errors on Page...

Checked everything, everything looks correct.

Very strange .


"Robert Aldwinckle" <robald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Microsoft.com" <stupified@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>
>>> instead of the nice tool bar for all navigation, I get this:
>>>
>>> Primary Navigation
> ...
>
>> Attached is a screenshot.
>
> < http://news.yahoo.com/ >
>
>
> Clearly the site wants you to see that instead of what you are used
> to seeing.
>
> So, one obvious explanation would be that they think that your browser
> is something other than what you believe it is. And the most common
> cause for that is incorrect or mangled or misinterpreted User-Agent
> information.
>
>
> Here is an excerpt from a previous post for how you could check that:
>
> <extract>
>> why do Microsoft sites think I'm running Windows 2000 when I'm not?
>
>
> This could be a question of User-Agent--what is IE sending
> with its requests and what is being received.
>
>
> (extract from a recent reply concerning a similar symptom)
>
> I suspect it is not your browser which is telling you that but the
> application your browser is connecting to. The thing that you have
> to think about then is what might be between your browser and the
> application. You mention some kind of security package. Can it
> intercept the requests that your browser makes and modify them?
> Specifically can it make changes to the User-Agent string that each
> request contains? If so, that could explain your symptom.
>
> It's pretty simple to test this idea by comparing the User-Agent string
> which should be sent with the User-Agent string which is received.
> For example, here are some suggestions I recently gave a user who
> had two different machines to use for comparison.
>
> <excerpt>
> What do you see if you enter this in an IE Address bar on each?
>
> javascript:navigator.userAgent
>
> (the property name is case sensitive; so notice that uppercase A.)
>
>
> However, what is more important about the User-Agent string
> is whether it reaches its destination. Some network security products
> may modify it; so it is also useful to compare what a remote site claims
> to actually see, with what the above IE window showed you.
>
> Steve Gibson's ShieldsUP! site has one such remote service.
>
> < http://grc.com/default.htm >
>
> (Choose Browser Headers once you allow it to Proceed.)
>
>
> Another site which you could use for comparing browser functionality is:
>
> < http://www.gemal.dk/browserspy/ >
>
>
> Post back your detailed observations if you need more help.
> </excerpt>
>
>
> BTW the last time I made this suggestion it *was* a case of a bad
> override in the registry but it was in a different branch from where
> you are looking. This was from the above XP user whose requests
> were erroneously being interpreted as being from a W2K machine.
>
> <example>
>> directions on that site and found a "Platform" string
>> in "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentV
>> ersion\Internet Settings\5.0\User Agent" that had the
>> 5.01 in it. I changed it to 5.1 and now the Windows
>> Update Version 5 site comes up. Thanks again! :-)
> </example>
>
>
> HTH
>
> Robert Aldwinckle
> ---
> </extract>
>
>
>


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