Re: Can't see one specific web site?

"Sapper" <colindodd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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TIA.
I have one web site that I cannot get to.

Up to about a week ago my wife visited a web site (shopping) www.sears.ca
about every other day.


That site does redirects. Make sure that you have a security setting
which allows that. E.g. set Default Level for the Internet zone.



Suddenly it stopped connecting to it, I tried deleting all cookies and
files, did a disk clean up, got rid of the favorite for it and still it wont
show.

The strange part is, IE doesn't time-out either

Any ideas to try?


An alternative would be to View Source of your "blank" page
and then extract (or construct) the URL that it would be redirecting
you to, then use that in your Address bar manually.


Hmm... in fact it is doing that using HTTP responses.
First it redirects here:

http://www.sears.ca:80/gp/home.html

Then it does another redirect, also with an HTTP response
(which is probably specific to my session, so I'm not going
to bother reproducing it here.)

In that case make sure that you don't have a firewall blocking
or modifying these responses.


I was using FiddlerTool to show me that.
An alternative would be to use telnet 80 and then type GET /
That usually implies that the client wants to use HTTP 1.0 protocol.

I just tried that and it seems that that site only expects HTTP 1.1 protocol.
So not having that checked (in Options, Advanced tab) could be another
reason for your symptom.

Nope. The server accepts that too. (Must be all the other headers than IE
still sends which makes it like it more.) Then a significant difference is that
it stops sending the page compressed. E.g. it went from around 26,000
bytes with HTTP 1.1 to over 140,000 bytes with HTTP 1.0.

BTW you can still see the redirect using telnet 80
by simulating some of the HTTP 1.1 connection.
E.g. reply with just 2 lines:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.sears.ca
and finish with another Enter.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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