All my forwarded domains go blank!

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Peter Bassett

All of a sudden every one of my domains are failing!

They appear for about 1/2 second, then the screen goes blank.

Sites like www.tmb8.com , www.metrorecruiters.com , www.dorisbassett.com.

BTW, they are forwarded URLs and the actual sites load fine and STAY
loaded. They are http://www.solotraveller.com/tmb8/index.shtml ,
http://www.solotraveller.com/metrorecruiters/index.htm , and
http://www.solotraveller.com/dorisbassett/index.shtml

Any suggestions as to why the redirected (stealth) URL goes blank but the
true URL loads OK?
 
Have you looked at the source of your "blank page"? (Alt-V,c)
One possible explanation is that the implementation of the redirect
is via Meta HTTP Refresh. If you have support for that feature
disabled in your Security settings the redirect would have to be done
manually instead. Some sites provide manual links to assist with that
operation but others do not. In particular, when the redirecting page
contains nothing to render you would see your symptom.

Hmm... in fact it seems it could be a combination of typos and unconventional
coding which could be the cause. (E.g. <htm> instead of <html>
and the page is implemented by a frameset using Javascript instead
of HTML; so if that didn't work due to problems executing scripting there
would be nothing to render.)

Hmm... I tried to simulate that case by setting Active Scripting to Prompt
and disallowing it when prompted. It's not exactly a blank page but OTOH
it doesn't allow me to continue anywhere usefully either.
However, as I expected Alt-V,c would permit me to spot this
(in the <noframes><body>) and then copy and paste and Enter
to continue:

<example>
Click here to enter <a href="http://www.solotraveller.com/tmb8/index.shtml">http://www.solotraveller.com/tmb8/index.shtml</a>
</example>


Are you seeing your expected title at least with your "blank page"?


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
 
Robert,

Not sure what I have to do. I looked at www.cafejj.com and the html looks
OK. Also, it runs fin at work. This leads me to believe I have a virus that
is causing the stealth URL page to only appear for 1/2 page, as opposed to
the actual URL.

Also, in Internet options, my Allow Meta Refresh settin is Enabled.


Pete
 
Peter Bassett said:
Robert,

Not sure what I have to do.
Click to expand...

Implied question: What does it show? (Remember: your words have to
supply what our eyes would notice.)

Implied question: What title do you see?

I looked at www.cafejj.com and the html looks OK.
Click to expand...

It also uses that unconventional frameset technique.
Using Alt-V,c shows the frameset.
Pressing F6, Menu-V shows the source of the page.

There is also an HTTP 302 redirect for the source of the page
(AFAIK in each example) because the targets apparently need
a trailing slash. If the HTTP 302 redirect failed that source
wouldn't show because it isn't encapsulated in <html> </html>

You would probably avoid that redirect by ensuring that
the frame location had a trailing slash. In this case
you would try coding instead of what you had:

<frame name="MYTOPFRAME" src="http://www.solotraveller.com/cafejj/" noresize>


This (new) site does not having the other coding error I referred to.
I haven't bothered trying to figure out which page that came from.

....
in Internet options, my Allow Meta Refresh settin is Enabled.
Click to expand...

That was just my preliminary guess based on your description alone
without actually looking at the source of any of your examples.

You also could try refreshing your scripting support if you think that
your symptoms could be explained by a failure there. Did you try
my attempt to simulate that hypothesis and see the same problem
that I saw should that occur?


Robert
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