RE: Netscape v. IE

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 13785
interpreted = N
texte = John ->>Access the offering for English Springer Spaniel. >>IE returns the results data. Netscape returns a Document contains no data. > >This is WebSTAR/SSL, not WebCatalog. Try hitting this same page with http: >instead of https: and I think the problem will disappear. StarNine has some >ideas about this error, but since I don't know the latest answers you should >probably ask support@smithmicro.comIf this is only happening on certain pages served from WebSTAR/SSL, it's probably a subtle Netscape 3.0 bug I've seen a couple of times before (you said it doesn't happen with MSIE; it probably won't happen with Netscape 2.x or 4.0, and turning off use SSL v.3 in the Netscape 3.0 security preferences would probably stop it as well). In any case, it seems to be related to the size of the page being returned from WebCatalog through WebSTAR/SSL. I don't know the exact cut point, but one user reported that the Document contains no data error happened on any page that was between 5465 and 5599 characters (go figure). All you should need to do is pad your pages with HTML comments or something else so that the page is above around 6000 characters, and Netscape 3 should be happy.I hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: Netscape v. IE (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  2. RE: Netscape v. IE (Marc Eagle 1997)
  3. Re: Netscape v. IE (Grant Hulbert 1997)
  4. Re: Netscape v. IE (Bob Minor 1997)
John ->>Access the offering for English Springer Spaniel. >>IE returns the results data. Netscape returns a Document contains no data. > >This is WebSTAR/SSL, not WebCatalog. Try hitting this same page with http: >instead of https: and I think the problem will disappear. StarNine has some >ideas about this error, but since I don't know the latest answers you should >probably ask support@smithmicro.comIf this is only happening on certain pages served from WebSTAR/SSL, it's probably a subtle Netscape 3.0 bug I've seen a couple of times before (you said it doesn't happen with MSIE; it probably won't happen with Netscape 2.x or 4.0, and turning off use SSL v.3 in the Netscape 3.0 security preferences would probably stop it as well). In any case, it seems to be related to the size of the page being returned from WebCatalog through WebSTAR/SSL. I don't know the exact cut point, but one user reported that the Document contains no data error happened on any page that was between 5465 and 5599 characters (go figure). All you should need to do is pad your pages with HTML comments or something else so that the page is above around 6000 characters, and Netscape 3 should be happy.I hope this helps,Marc Eagle StarNine Technologies http://www.smithmicro.com/ Marc Eagle

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