IE8 Rendering and EW1 page problem.

Question

I'm stumped.

www.ncfbc.com/guestbook.htm renders fine in Firefox and Safari. In IE8 it only appears to render the html db content. No graphics, theme, links, etc.

On the same server, http://www.motherlodebulldogclub.com/guestbook.htm renders fine in all three browsers.

The server folders and file names appear the same on each server. The conent would apply to each site.

The only suspecious occurance between the 2 sites above is when the guestbook.htm page is opened in the troubled web...www.ncfbc.com, the following occures: couldn't open file C\Users\JStorck\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\WebTempDir\then a series of letters and number which vary each time the page is opened.

This does not occur on the motherlode guestbook page when opening it.

I have deleted the EW cache and temp files. It still gives the warning when the guestbook.htm page is opened in EW. The host claims they believe it to be a local publishing problem since the server folder and files appear to have the same folders except for a vti_cnt.

Suggestions please.

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Answer 1

http://www.ncfbc.com/guestbook.htm is the same on IE7 and IE8.  It's something local on your machine/cache, etc.

Answer 2

Kathy

It appears to be specific web in EW related. As I said, the other web is ok.

But what is causing it or what is the fix. I'm going to try to recalculate hyperlinks next. Clearing the cache seemed to have no effect.


couldn't open file C\Users\JStorck\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Temporary Internet Files\WebTempDir\then a series of letters and number which vary each time the page is opened.

Thanks

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Answer 3

Since, as I said, the site looks fine in both IE8 and IE7 to me, there is nothing to fix, from what I can see.  You said it looks different in IE8 - it doesn't.

If you are having local trouble with the site working on it in EW, try FP cleaner.  Something may be corrupt.

Answer 4

I see differences between Firefox and IE. When I do a view source of the page you include using an iframe I see very different source code in IE and Firefox. I can't help wondering if it has something to do with the base64 encoding. Firefox seems to be decoding it while IE is not. You might check with your host to see what configuration differences there are between the two domains with guestbooks.

Personally I intensely dislike scrolling iframes and won't use a forum in one. One other thing to mention is that you should not use spaces in file or folder names since that too can cause issues.

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Answer 5

Cheryl,

Thank you, I've contacted my host and they requested I submit  a ticket to security@...
Sounds like a hack?? Since the files are on the host, I have not been able to locate the file to remove the code.
Hopefully they will provide insight. Thanks for pointing out the source code. I looked at the code of the ncfbc guestbook page but never thought to look at the code of the host's guestbook page linked in the inline frame.

I'll probably redo the page without scrolling iframes when this is corrected. Thanks.

Follow-up. The questioned code was removed by the host and all appears ok. Thanks.

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