[thelist] IE6 / page loading

Raymond Camden jedimaster at macromedia.com
Thu Mar 7 14:55:01 CST 2002


> I've *so* been there. Spent most of a week and an entire weekend
> trying to voodoo win I.E. into behaving. (read: if a form is
> submitted, it fails, click back, fill out the form, and submit it
> again, it works! tears, wailing, gnashing of teeth.)

Thank god, I thought I was alone in this mad world. ;)

> Tell me, are these SSL pages? I.E. 6 was randomly freaking out with
> forms and SSL v.3 on that client's site. By downgrading all secure
> connections to SSL v.2 at the server end everything worked fine. You
> can check whether this will help in your case by turning off SSL 3
> support in IE 6's preferences. If the problems go away then that's
> your sucker... :-) There are also problems with earlier IE browsers
> and HTTP 1.1, but that seems to have been fixed by version 6 of IE;
> at least, forcing HTTP 1.0 for IE browsers didn't affect the problem
> in any noticeable way.

Unfortunately, no, these are not SSL pages, but thanks for the idea.

-Ray




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