ASP disabled on AOL?

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  1. Bruce

    Bruce DiscountASP.NET Staff

    This is very strange....

    If it works on 1 browser but not other, it could mean that there's some configuration on the browser side.

    Check

    1) cookie
    2) javascript
    3) cache (maybe the username and password is cached)??


    quote:Originally posted by Dhajjfas

    While I do use Opera for most of my building, I know that most of my pages are viewed via AOL's browser.

    I built a page requiring a password be entered before the site would load. This was done mostly via asp and access for the password to be stored.

    On any other browser, like IE, Opera, and Netscape, the index page is just that, the page where a password must be entered. On AOL, however, it completely bipasses the asp script, thus the password, and loads the page.

    Is this fluke of AOL's browser (which will make it more fun to rewrite some pages) or is this a feature that wasn't anticipated here?
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    Bruce, Nov 7, 2003
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  2. Dhajjfas

    Dhajjfas

    While I do use Opera for most of my building, I know that most of my pages are viewed via AOL's browser.

    I built a page requiring a password be entered before the site would load. This was done mostly via asp and access for the password to be stored.

    On any other browser, like IE, Opera, and Netscape, the index page is just that, the page where a password must be entered. On AOL, however, it completely bipasses the asp script, thus the password, and loads the page.

    Is this fluke of AOL's browser (which will make it more fun to rewrite some pages) or is this a feature that wasn't anticipated here?
     
    Dhajjfas, Nov 7, 2003
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  3. Dhajjfas

    Dhajjfas

    AOL identifies itself as Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0), verified after doing a few server variables.

    What does not make sense is why would a Mozilla browser completely bypass any asp scripting. Username/password is not cached (since everytime you close out AOL it does an automatic dump), nor is there any javascript running. Cookies are non-existant as well for the site.
     
    Dhajjfas, Nov 9, 2003
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  4. rory

    rory

    quote:Originally posted by Dhajjfas

    AOL identifies itself as Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; AOL 8.0), verified after doing a few server variables.

    What does not make sense is why would a Mozilla browser completely bypass any asp scripting. Username/password is not cached (since everytime you close out AOL it does an automatic dump), nor is there any javascript running. Cookies are non-existant as well for the site.
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    sounds like the user has cookies or security settings altered. I use Mozilla all the time to test my ASP sites, and never have a problem. Download Mozilla and test it yourself to make sure, if you havent already? IF you dont want to download it email me a link and I will check it out.

    Rory

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    rory, Nov 10, 2003
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