"Web page unavailable while offline"

[Guest]

Oftentimes while I am offline (56 K Dial-Up Connection) I get a pop-up box that says "Web page unavailable while offline".

The new pop-up window has 2 buttons that I can choose from- "Connect" or "Stay Offline. It happens when I am working in Excel, Word or any program. In no way was I trying to access a webpage when I got these boxes, which will appear oftentimes 2 or 3 times in a row. Generally I just hit hit the X in the right hand corner of the box, and they close.

They pop up while I am offline, and also when I first connect, they will sometimes pop up, after I have connected via my "Dial Up Connection".

It is annoying, especially when I am offline, have no interest in going on line, and have to keep closing the box before I can continue whatever I was working on

I have run Spybot, and even after a clean sweep, I still get that "Web Page unavailable while offline". I have my XP firewall on. IS this an Explorer issue, or is it a security issue. How do I resolve this problem

I run Windows XP Professional, on a Dell Dimesion 4600, and I have Internet Explorer 6

Nicol

Thanks

 

[howdad]

-----Original Message-----
Oftentimes while I am offline (56 K Dial-Up Connection) I

get a pop-up box that says "Web page unavailable while
offline".

The new pop-up window has 2 buttons that I can choose

from- "Connect" or "Stay Offline. It happens when I am
working in Excel, Word or any program. In no way was I
trying to access a webpage when I got these boxes, which
will appear oftentimes 2 or 3 times in a row. Generally I
just hit hit the X in the right hand corner of the box,
and they close.

They pop up while I am offline, and also when I first

connect, they will sometimes pop up, after I have
connected via my "Dial Up Connection".

It is annoying, especially when I am offline, have no

interest in going on line, and have to keep closing the
box before I can continue whatever I was working on.

I have run Spybot, and even after a clean sweep, I still

get that "Web Page unavailable while offline". I have my
XP firewall on. IS this an Explorer issue, or is it a
security issue. How do I resolve this problem?

I run Windows XP Professional, on a Dell Dimesion 4600,

and I have Internet Explorer 6.

 

[Robert Aldwinckle]

IS this an Explorer issue, or is it a security issue.

We need more information about the URL involved.
One explanation is that the page contains something in its source
which is forcing a refresh. And one possible example of that
would be

<example>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=index.html">
</example>

If you were online they could be doing this to try giving you
a different ad every 10 seconds.

That particular example can be defeated by disabling a Security option:
Allow META REFRESH

Other possibilities could be defeated by disabling scripting.

How do I resolve this problem?

Usually the simplest thing to do when you encounter such cases
is just close the window which is causing the symptom.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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Oftentimes while I am offline (56 K Dial-Up Connection) I get a pop-up box that says "Web page unavailable while offline".

The new pop-up window has 2 buttons that I can choose from- "Connect" or "Stay Offline. It happens when I am working in Excel,

Word or any program. In no way was I trying to access a webpage when I got these boxes, which will appear oftentimes 2 or 3 times
in a row. Generally I just hit hit the X in the right hand corner of the box, and they close.

They pop up while I am offline, and also when I first connect, they will sometimes pop up, after I have connected via my "Dial Up Connection".

It is annoying, especially when I am offline, have no interest in going on line, and have to keep closing the box before I can

continue whatever I was working on.

I have run Spybot, and even after a clean sweep, I still get that "Web Page unavailable while offline". I have my XP firewall on.

IS this an Explorer issue, or is it a security issue. How do I resolve this problem?

 

[Allen]

I understand that IE allows the user to define which pages
he would like to view offline.

Do you know how the data is stored? Is there a database or
database table this information is stored in?

Thanks,
Allen

-----Original Message-----

We need more information about the URL involved.
One explanation is that the page contains something in its source
which is forcing a refresh. And one possible example of that
would be

<example>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="10;URL=index.html">
</example>

If you were online they could be doing this to try giving you
a different ad every 10 seconds.

That particular example can be defeated by disabling a Security option:
Allow META REFRESH

Other possibilities could be defeated by disabling scripting.

Usually the simplest thing to do when you encounter such cases
is just close the window which is causing the symptom.


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle

I get a pop-up box that says "Web page unavailable while
offline".from- "Connect" or "Stay Offline. It happens when I am
working in Excel,

Word or any program. In no way was I trying to access a

webpage when I got these boxes, which will appear
oftentimes 2 or 3 times

in a row. Generally I just hit hit the X in the right

hand corner of the box, and they close.connect, they will sometimes pop up, after I have
connected via my "Dial

Up Connection".

interest in going on line, and have to keep closing the
box before I can

continue whatever I was working on.

still get that "Web Page unavailable while offline". I
have my XP firewall on.

 

[H Leboeuf]

What I do is Save the Page as Web Page complete and direct to download to a
selected folder just for that.

All the necessary files will be placed in that folder and possibly some sub
folder for you to look at.