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Strange IE Problem

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:11 am
by shiznatix
I have no idea whats up with this but...

At my office we have 6 people running vista and 1 person running ubuntu (me).

For some reason, on 5 of those 6 Vista computers, our website works perfect (in IE) but on the 1 it always gives a 500 error. When that computer uses FF, no problems at all. No other computers or browsers here can reproduce this error and it is only this 1 computer and only in IE on that computer. All other websites work 100% no problems on all computers on all browsers.

So I mean, wtf is going on with this? I tried clearing cookies, nothing. What else could I do?

Re: Strange IE Problem

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 8:29 am
by josh
I'd start with fiddler ( or ethtool ), also probably before both of those I'd examine the server logs and review my webserver configuration, try a fresh installation of your httpd rpm, etc... etc.. Is there something different about that IE? Version? If you run IE on that machine in an emulated OS does it happen? Is there any rewrite rules or duplicate virtual hosts with minor discrepancies such as trailing slashes? Did you deviate from any guidelines like ommiting / including trailing slashes on directories, forward slashes vs backwards slashes in httpd.conf? You are using apache?

Re: Strange IE Problem

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:39 am
by shiznatix
I have no idea what happened but now it works.

Fun!

Re: Strange IE Problem

Posted: Thu Jan 22, 2009 1:22 pm
by JAB Creations
Access logs: look at the request from the server's perspective. Maybe it was simply a cache issue?

Also I feel really bad that you have to deal with Vista. I personally would have manually upgraded (yes UPGRADED) all the systems to XP or quit myself. :evil:

jshpro2 is right though it wasn't until recent that I found how awesomely useful Fiddler is. "ericlaw" kicks ass for making that app as well as for making 90% of all the reply posts on the IE blog.