I'm getting some strange behavior from my machine that is causing my site not to load in IE 6; however from my machine Firefox works perfectly fine to load the site. I also checked from another machine and the site loads normally on firefox and even from IE 7. I have Adobe Flash Player 9 installed on all machines.
Client_Machine_A (my machine): Firefox 2.0.0.7: site load properly IE 6.0.2900.2180: *SITE DOES NOT LOAD* Client_Machine_B (another test machine): Firefox 2.0.0.6: site load properly IE 7.0.5730.11: site loads properly SERVER ENVIORNMENT: Here is the environment that I am running my server on: CentOS linux operating system Apache web server Mongrel app server ISSUE: When I use IE6 it seems that I get the flash application downloaded because I can see the background color and when I right click I can see the flash context menu, but for some reason the screen is completely blank and does not show the Accordian display object and login boxes that should be on the home page. I have investigated the log files on the server (/etc/httpd/logs/myFlexApp.com-access_log) and I have noticed some inconsistent behavior. On Client_Machine_A when I enter the url for http://www.mydomain.com/bin/myFlexApp.html I can see the following trace which shows multiple 304 http responses with a final 200 http response for the SWF file showing the .SWF file is received successfully: [27/Sep/2007:10:42:51 +0000] "GET /bin/history.js HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www.mydomain.com/bin/ myFlexApp.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" [27/Sep/2007:10:42:51 +0000] "GET /bin/ myFlexApp.swf HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www. mydomain.com/bin/ myFlexApp.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" [27/Sep/2007:10:42:51 +0000] "GET /bin/history.htm HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www. mydomain.com/bin/ myFlexApp.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" [27/Sep/2007:10:42:52 +0000] "GET /bin/history.swf HTTP/1.1" 304 - "http://www. mydomain.com/bin/history.htm" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" [27/Sep/2007:10:42:52 +0000] "GET /sessions HTTP/1.1" 200 25 "http://www. mydomain.com/bin/ myFlexApp.swf" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)" >From Client_Machine_A I notice the same trace with 304 responses in the log file for Firefox 2.0.0.7, but everything works perfectly and I can view the site properly. What's weird is that from another test machine, Client_Machine_B I notice that for each request there is a http response of 200 showing that all files (myFlexApp.html, history.swf, history.js, etc.) are received successfully. As mentioned above, Client_Machine_B accesses the server from Firefox 2.0.0.6 and as an additional test from IE 7.0.5730.11. If anyone has any insight as to what might be the issue, I would greatly appreciate your help. ps. I noticed a similar issue in the mail archives: http://www.mail- archive.com/[email protected]/msg08708.html but that issue involved Tomcat and SSL, which don't apply to my situation Once again, any help would be much appreciated. Best regards, Deven Hariyani
