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IE 5 connection problem
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Original Message
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Name: Tess10
Date: November 29, 2003 at 00:10:52 Pacific
Subject: IE 5 connection problem
OS: wfw 3.11
CPU/Ram: 300/128
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Comment: I have a wfw machine on a local network and I cannot open any web pages using IE 5. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions?
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Response Number 1
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Name: Varga
Date: November 29, 2003 at 00:56:22 Pacific
Subject: IE 5 connection problem
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Reply: (edit)Do you get any kind of error message? What Dos version are you using?
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Response Number 3
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Name: Tess10
Date: November 29, 2003 at 12:20:41 Pacific
Subject: IE 5 connection problem
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Reply: (edit)I am using DOS 6.22 and my machine is behind a router/firewall, but all my other machines work fine on the internet.
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Response Number 4
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Name: Tess10
Date: November 29, 2003 at 13:01:28 Pacific
Subject: IE 5 connection problem
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Reply: (edit)There is no error message, any web page I try to open it spends about 5 minutes saying opening page... then it says "The page cannot be displayed". I can open up pages on my local webserver but not outside the firewall.
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Response Number 5
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Name: dominicus
Date: November 29, 2003 at 21:00:41 Pacific
Subject: IE 5 connection problem |
Reply: (edit)Have you tried another browser succesfully? I don't mean to appear flippant whan I say use another browser, but IE is troublesome, and any previous security advantages IE used to have (re companies requiring secure transactions and the like) are no longer true..even on 32bit systems IE5 is no longer accepted ..and that's the highest version WfW can install...and it is noticeably slower than the main 16 bit OS alternatives (opera 362, netscape 4.08).. I have noticed on all my systems (16 and 32 bit alike) that IE5 is, more and more, rendering oddly, or not opening pages it used to open, and of course theres that new alert that was out in the news a couple days ago about a fatal flaw in 501, 5.5, and 6.0 re scripting and redirection (the advice given was turn off scripting, or use another browser!)....
I only ever use it to any extent now on my mac, as it's still competetive in that setting..but on windows machines, not anymore...I don't know if pages are being written in a non-compatible manner with IE more now, or if security protocols are responsible, but i do know it's become increasingly troublesome..
Your machine's specs are ideal for netscape 4.08, on a good machine it's the most (for 16bit systems) reliable, stable, and versatile..some secure sites will still accept it too, provided you're running the 128 bit (domestic) version...any limitations it would run into would be more due to the limitations of dos/WfW's 16 bit nature....
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