Internet Explorer Issues!

Odds of anyone knowing this are slim to none.. but maybe someone knows another forum I can ask at?

Ok.. got an apache server that uses dynamo to fetch the content.

If you're using IE6 and go to http://server/ it loads the page fine.

If you use any other version of IE, or mozilla.. it returns an error message.

Does anyone have any idea what IE6 does differently? I'm thinking it's something along the lines of the GET request.. but I need to narrow it down to figure out what it is doing differently.

We're rolling out a new "portal" webpage company wide Tuesday, and we need to figure this out, as 99.9% of our users run 2k. Also, it's not fun upgrading almost 600 remote stores to IE6.

I haven't tried it in opera yet.. just to see. I know it's not just the user-agent string causing the working in IE6, as A, apache wouldn't care, and B i've changed firefox's user agent string to IE6's.

#138092

bump lazy beeetchez

somebody atleast get into your server log and paste me an IE6 get request, and a get request from ANY other browser.

plz!? kthx!? kbye!?

#138129

hire a webmaster to run ur portal... and dont ask where or how to GET them. its not in the lines for sure.

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Originally posted by thadude@Apr 1 2004, 03:44 PM

hire a webmaster to run ur portal... and dont ask where or how to GET them. its not in the lines for sure. 

uhm. i realize you were joking.. i work for a company which does over a billion dollars a year business through our webpage..

but.. to break it down for you..

We're running 2 apache servers, an F5 which is our load balancer. We're calling the webpage by the vhost that's assigned to our F5.

The apache does not serve any of the pages itself, instead it uses a mod & program called Dynamo, developed by ATG.

When a request is made to apache, it's handled by the dynamo module, which queries one of our two dyanmo servers for the content.

Dyanmo is handling all paths on our apache server by specifying

DynamoPath /

DynamoPath /marketing/

.... etc

The first line is telling dynamo anything that comes to the root folder to handle, but for some reason it is not working. Dyanmo tech support has been far less then helpful, trying to blame it on our network. But the error that is returned is a .jhtml file located on the dynamo server, so clearly apache has no problems getting it's packets to our dyanmo servers.

We've already got the situation fixed, by adding a Redirect string to our httpd.conf in apache, however I'm still curious as to the difference in get requests by IE 6 and all other browsers. Because, as I stated, only IE6 would successfully get dynamo to query the page properly. It's not a thing i MUST find out, but it's a thing us big boys in the computer field like to know for future reference.

oh.. and we have 15 people on our web design staff, and over 15 different apache & IIS servers.. so we've got that bit down chief, thanks for the good advice though.

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