Blank Page on certain websites

[bxbabe109]

Hello, I started having problems with certain websites. When I go to
websites like http://photobucket.com or www.mygen.co.uk, even
wikipedia, I get a blank page that says done on the bottom. At the very
top where it is blue it just says the URL. I never had these problems
before. I'm using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Home Edition.

 

[Hans Le Roy]

Hi,

Is this in your office? The system administrator might have blocked these
websites.

Kind regards

Hans

 

[bxbabe109]

Hi,

Is this in your office? The system administrator might have blocked these
websites.

Kind regards

Hans

 

[Frank Saunders, MS-MVP OE/WM]

Hello, I started having problems with certain websites. When I go to
websites like http://photobucket.com or www.mygen.co.uk, even
wikipedia, I get a blank page that says done on the bottom. At the very
top where it is blue it just says the URL. I never had these problems
before. I'm using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Home Edition.

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message:

DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded.


4. If that doesn't fix it, see this article:

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/26.html

5. If you are using WinXP try this:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IE_Default_Browser.reg

6. See Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 may display a blank Web page
after you select Auto-Select encoding
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870863

You can also try this:

Go to Start/run, and type SFC (msconfig for WinXP).
Choose 'Extract One File From Installation Disk' ("Expand File" for WinXP).
Type oleaut32.dll, not worrying about its location. Then, click Start.

Next to 'Restore From', type in or browse for the file's location, which is
probably in the Win98 (i386 for WinXP) folder of your installation CD-ROM
(typically D:\Win98), or in your Windows\Options\Cabs (Windows\i386 for
WinXP) folder, as the case may be.

Then, next to 'Save File In', enter C:\Windows\System (C:\Windows\System32
for WinXP), and click OK. System File Checker (or msconfig) looks for the
file, saves it as you requested, and then tells you that 'the file has been
successfully extracted'.

You may need to reboot.

 

[bxbabe109]

From http://www.fjsmjs.com/OE/nolinks.htm

1. Click Start, and then click Run.

2. In the Open box, type:

regsvr32 urlmon.dll

3. Click OK, and then click OK again when you receive the following message:

DllRegisterServer in urlmon.dll succeeded.


4. If that doesn't fix it, see this article:

http://inetexplorer.mvps.org/answers/26.html

5. If you are using WinXP try this:
http://www.mvps.org/sramesh2k/reg/IE_Default_Browser.reg

6. See Internet Explorer 6.0 Service Pack 1 may display a blank Web page
after you select Auto-Select encoding
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/870863

You can also try this:

Go to Start/run, and type SFC (msconfig for WinXP).
Choose 'Extract One File From Installation Disk' ("Expand File" for WinXP).
Type oleaut32.dll, not worrying about its location. Then, click Start.

Next to 'Restore From', type in or browse for the file's location, which is
probably in the Win98 (i386 for WinXP) folder of your installation CD-ROM
(typically D:\Win98), or in your Windows\Options\Cabs (Windows\i386 for
WinXP) folder, as the case may be.

Then, next to 'Save File In', enter C:\Windows\System (C:\Windows\System32
for WinXP), and click OK. System File Checker (or msconfig) looks for the
file, saves it as you requested, and then tells you that 'the file has been
successfully extracted'.

You may need to reboot.

Sorry, that didn't work.

 

[bxbabe109]

Sorry, that didn't work.

It's ok. One of the websites I can reach through a proxy.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

Hello, I started having problems with certain websites. When I go to
websites like http://photobucket.com or www.mygen.co.uk, even
wikipedia, I get a blank page that says done on the bottom. At the very
top where it is blue it just says the URL. I never had these problems
before. I'm using Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP Home Edition.

FiddlerTool shows that this is a common factor in all of your example
problem sites.

<response_header>
Content-Encoding: gzip
</response_header>


So this suggests that decoding the zipped response might be
a cause of your symptom.

Do you have any trouble decoding normal .zip files?
Do you have any third-party utilities which are doing that?
Perhaps you should try uninstalling them if so?

Do you have any other software which might be trying to do the decoding
by itself, e.g., in order to implement content filtering of some other kind?
For that matter does your ISP provide filtering such as parental blocking?
I suspect that the response would have to be decoded before such filters
could be used. Etc.

An alternative approach might be trying to find a repair procedure
in this area. E.g. doing a regsvr32 on a module related to .zip encoding,
if appropriate. Unfortunately I don't know the name of such a module.
I tried to find one by running FileMon filtering on iexplore and refreshing
the page using Ctrl-F5. FiddlerTool showed that the compressed file
was still being received (e.g. instead of just an Ok to use a cached copy)
because of the Ctrl-F5, so I don't know where to go from there on that tack.

You could try using FiddlerTool yourself to see if it is seeing the encoding
properly because another possibility on yet another tack would be something
such as an MTU size problem which would prevent the full encoded page
from being received and thus preventing the decoding of *any* of it. Etc.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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[Guest]

I am having the same problem . It is driving me nuts . Most web site are ok
there are some that are not including the sites mentioned by bxbabe109's
posting . I am also having toruble with http://www.Ryanair.com .

HELP!!

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

I am having the same problem . It is driving me nuts . Most web site are ok
there are some that are not including the sites mentioned by bxbabe109's
posting . I am also having toruble with http://www.Ryanair.com .

The first thing that happens with that is a redirect,
presumably based on my Language preference:


http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/


So, do you have a Lanuage preference specified?
What happens if you try that second URL explicitly instead?


HTH

Robert
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