RE: Page cannot be displayed

Hi Amanda. I have had the same problem for about three weeks with several
websites I have always been able to access. I finally found the problem.
This actually worked! I have Windows XP SP2 and use Internet Explorer 6.0.

Here are the steps I took:

Open your IE6 properties and go to Content tab. Click on "Clear SSL State"
and click OK and Apply.

Next, click on your desktop "Start", Control Panel, and then Administrative
Tools.
Click on "Local Security Policy". Then click on Local Policies and then
Security Options. To the right you will see a list of policies. Scroll down
to "System Cryptography:Use FIPS compliant algorithims for encryption,
hashing, and signing --Doubleclick it and then set to "DISABLED" and click OK.

I then rebooted my computer just to make sure the change took place.

I am not having any problems with opening Secure sites or any others after
making this change.

If it does not work for you, you can always change the setting back to enable.

Hope this helps you. Please post back and let me know.





"Amanda" wrote:

> Using Windows XP pro with SP2, and Internet Explorer 6.0 128 bit version and
> Norton Internet Security System . .
>
> I cannot get to this website:
> http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/venus/venus.html
>
> I get the "Page cannot be displayed" message whenever I try to. I've tried
> a number of things: I've updated windows, restarted my computer several
> times, opened a new browser window many times, examined my security options
> under Internet options-Advanced to make sure that SSL 2.0, SSL 3.0, and TLS
> 1.0 are checked, disabled my Internet securty center (including firewall),
> and cleared my cache and cookies. I've done almost everything I can think
> of. It is this site ONLY that is giving me trouble. In addition, I've
> checked on 4 other computers, and the page loads without a problem. I had
> mozilla firefox installed before as well, and whenever I tried using that to
> view the page, it gave me a message saying something like "connection was
> refused when attempting to connect to
> http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/venus/venus.html"; I tried
> uninstalling and reinstalling mozilla and tried clearing the cache and
> cookies, etc. etc. It didn't work with that browser either. Since the page
> loads fine on other computers, I still think there must be something awry
> with my computer, specifcially, or possibly some type of corruption with the
> web browser or how windows is handling the web browsers.
>
> Please help!
.

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