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Posted by Tricky Dicky on 09/26/28 11:41
Another poster has said they deleted cookies and the history file to clear
the same problem so this may be it. Also, I have to check the MTU settings -
packet dropping perhaps?
Cheers to all so far
Tricky
"Toda-San" <insectivorous@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1141367022.872284.272770@v46g2000cwv.googlegroups.com...
> This doesn't sound like a cache problem, and I fear you may waste
> considerable time looking there. I could be wrong, of course. But if a
> browser misses (for whatever reason) a cached page, then it goes online
> to re-load from the originating site. Only if it then can't find that
> page would you get the 404. And of course, HTTPS pages are never
> cached/should never be cached.
>
> My first impression would be a cookie problem. (insert dissertation
> about stateful/stateless connections and the requirement for cookies)
> (insert dissertation/lecture that cookies are NOT evil, but some
> journalists will say anything for a story.) I would check the machine
> to see if cookies are disabled or disabled wrongly. (Ex: I agree with
> disabling cookies that are sent to other than the originating site.)
> My thinking is that this will be a more fruitful area of investigation.
>
> Also grab your laptop and hook it to their connection to see if YOU can
> go back to a page they cannot. It COULD be something funky with the ISP
> "helpfully" caching pages for you; and such a test would quickly rule
> out that problem. Come to think, do that anyway. You need to isolate
> the fault to this side of the wall or that side of the wall. Speaking
> of which, do try it on their machine with whatever firewall they are
> using shut off. (Insert true confession of abiding fear of/hatred for
> Wintel software firewalls)
>
> And keep saying to yourself, "FIPs are fun!", maybe you'll actually
> believe it someday. Best of luck!
>
>
> Tricky Dicky wrote:
>> Never heard of this one before
>>
>> A friend is using IE on a TalkTalk broadband connection and he can browse
>> to
>> a website quite easily but if he presses the back button to go back to a
>> page he gets the "not found" error and even pressing refresh does not
>> bring
>> back the page back. This is happening with regular websites not just
>> secure
>> ones where timeouts could be occuring
>>
>> I am thinking a cache problem but any suggestions on where to look?
>>
>> Tricky
>
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