MS websites not working

[Brett]

I'm not quite sure what happened, but I recently
installed VC++ 6.0 with Service Pack 5, and now whenever
I go to MSDN Online
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp), the
Table of Contents is "Unavailable."

I also browsed to Microsoft's Platform SDK Update website
(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate
/) and no matter which topic I select on the menu I get
the following error: Could not parse XML data: [ XML load
failed ].

I then selected the Install option from the Downloads
dropdown menu and after it trys to scan my computer for
updates, I get this error:

Welcome to the Platform SDK Update Site!
SDK Update requires msxml3.dll Sp2 or greater before
proceeding with the installation. An earlier version of
msxml3.dll has been detected on your system. Please
install msxml3.dll Sp2 from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/downloads/list/xmlgeneral.asp.

Okay, so I installed the latest versions of the XML
Parser 3.0 SP4 and Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 SP2,
but I still have the same freakin' problems. This
aggrevates me to no end because I use those two websites
above a lot. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to call Tech
Support.

Sincerely,
Disgruntled User

 

[PA Bear]

And your Windows version is...?
--
HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

I'm not quite sure what happened, but I recently
installed VC++ 6.0 with Service Pack 5, and now whenever
I go to MSDN Online
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp), the
Table of Contents is "Unavailable."

I also browsed to Microsoft's Platform SDK Update website
(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate
/) and no matter which topic I select on the menu I get
the following error: Could not parse XML data: [ XML load
failed ].

I then selected the Install option from the Downloads
dropdown menu and after it trys to scan my computer for
updates, I get this error:

Welcome to the Platform SDK Update Site!
SDK Update requires msxml3.dll Sp2 or greater before
proceeding with the installation. An earlier version of
msxml3.dll has been detected on your system. Please
install msxml3.dll Sp2 from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/downloads/list/xmlgeneral.asp.

Okay, so I installed the latest versions of the XML
Parser 3.0 SP4 and Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 SP2,
but I still have the same freakin' problems. This
aggrevates me to no end because I use those two websites
above a lot. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to call Tech
Support.

Sincerely,
Disgruntled User

 

[Brett]

Windows XP SP1, sorry for forgetting.

-----Original Message-----
And your Windows version is...?
--
HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

I'm not quite sure what happened, but I recently
installed VC++ 6.0 with Service Pack 5, and now whenever
I go to MSDN Online
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp), the
Table of Contents is "Unavailable."

I also browsed to Microsoft's Platform SDK Update website
(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate
/) and no matter which topic I select on the menu I get
the following error: Could not parse XML data: [ XML load
failed ].

I then selected the Install option from the Downloads
dropdown menu and after it trys to scan my computer for
updates, I get this error:

Welcome to the Platform SDK Update Site!
SDK Update requires msxml3.dll Sp2 or greater before
proceeding with the installation. An earlier version of
msxml3.dll has been detected on your system. Please
install msxml3.dll Sp2 from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/downloads/list/xmlgeneral.asp.

Okay, so I installed the latest versions of the XML
Parser 3.0 SP4 and Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 SP2,
but I still have the same freakin' problems. This
aggrevates me to no end because I use those two websites
above a lot. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to call Tech
Support.

Sincerely,
Disgruntled User

.

 

[PA Bear]

I believe I've read posts in WinXP General newsgroup about such problems
after installing one or more recent Windows updates. You might want to
check that NG, Brett. (I though I still had some saved posts on this but
they appear to be gone.)
--
~PA Bear

Windows XP SP1, sorry for forgetting.

-----Original Message-----
And your Windows version is...?
--
HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

Brett wrote:
I'm not quite sure what happened, but I recently
installed VC++ 6.0 with Service Pack 5, and now whenever
I go to MSDN Online
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp), the
Table of Contents is "Unavailable."

I also browsed to Microsoft's Platform SDK Update website
(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate
/) and no matter which topic I select on the menu I get
the following error: Could not parse XML data: [ XML load
failed ].

I then selected the Install option from the Downloads
dropdown menu and after it trys to scan my computer for
updates, I get this error:

Welcome to the Platform SDK Update Site!
SDK Update requires msxml3.dll Sp2 or greater before
proceeding with the installation. An earlier version of
msxml3.dll has been detected on your system. Please
install msxml3.dll Sp2 from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/downloads/list/xmlgeneral.asp.

Okay, so I installed the latest versions of the XML
Parser 3.0 SP4 and Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 SP2,
but I still have the same freakin' problems. This
aggrevates me to no end because I use those two websites
above a lot. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to call Tech
Support.

Sincerely,
Disgruntled User
.

 

[Andrew Eberhard]

Just thought I'd post what I believe is causing the problem. Looks
like a web server issue. See sample below:
<div id="divQuickDirtyAndUnsafe"></div>
<spt>
var objXMLDoc = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
objXMLDoc.async = false;
objXMLDoc.load("http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/deeptreeconfig.xml");
divQuickDirtyAndUnsafe.innerHTML += navigator.userAgent + "<br>";
divQuickDirtyAndUnsafe.innerHTML += objXMLDoc.parseError + "<br>";
divQuickDirtyAndUnsafe.innerHTML += objXMLDoc.parseError.reason;
if(confirm("...but I can go there directly...watch..."))
window.location.href =
"http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/deeptreeconfig.xml";
</spt>

Paste this into a body tag, change spt to script and run the page. On
my computer (and, presumably on all affected computers), this is what
you get:

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
-2146697209
No data is available for the requested resource.

Hope we can get this fixed.
Andrew Eberhard
www.eberhard.net/andrew

And your Windows version is...?
--
HTH...Please post back to this thread

~Robear Dyer (aka PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE), AH-VSOP

Protect Your PC
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/default.asp

I'm not quite sure what happened, but I recently
installed VC++ 6.0 with Service Pack 5, and now whenever
I go to MSDN Online
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp), the
Table of Contents is "Unavailable."

I also browsed to Microsoft's Platform SDK Update website
(http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/platformsdk/sdkupdate
/) and no matter which topic I select on the menu I get
the following error: Could not parse XML data: [ XML load
failed ].

I then selected the Install option from the Downloads
dropdown menu and after it trys to scan my computer for
updates, I get this error:

Welcome to the Platform SDK Update Site!
SDK Update requires msxml3.dll Sp2 or greater before
proceeding with the installation. An earlier version of
msxml3.dll has been detected on your system. Please
install msxml3.dll Sp2 from
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?
url=/downloads/list/xmlgeneral.asp.

Okay, so I installed the latest versions of the XML
Parser 3.0 SP4 and Microsoft XML Core Services 4.0 SP2,
but I still have the same freakin' problems. This
aggrevates me to no end because I use those two websites
above a lot. Any suggestions would be greatly
appreciated, otherwise I'm going to have to call Tech
Support.

Sincerely,
Disgruntled User