Re: javascript error

Sander Tekelenburg wrote:
>
> In article <1h76z75.18zgjgg1de1ktwN%mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Mike Rosenberg) wrote:
>
> > Sawney Beane <beadleXX@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > I got her to read it. On the phone it was hard to be sure I understood.
> > >
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> >
> > Well, this sounds very much like it's not an error message at all but
> > rather a pop-up ad.
>
> Indeed. Definitely not a javascript error message.
>
[...]

> Still curious why one user with the same browser would get this and the
> other does not. Communicator offered hardly any configurability (IIRC
> you can only switch javascript on/off), so I don't see how Sawney might
> have a setting that prevents 'pop-up ads'.
>
> In theory the server could be sending different content, based on the
> user's IP address. But it doesn't seem a very likely explanation in this
> case.
>
> Another reason for the server to send diffeent users different content
> might be cookies. That sounds slightly more likely to me. I honestly
> don't remember how to quickly/easily troubelshoot that with Communicator
> though. Does it even allow you to temporarily switch Cookies support off?

Our cookie preferences are set the same. Maybe it's triggered by a
cookie she picked up two weeks ago. I could tell her to find
MagicCookie with Sherlock and dump it in the trash.

How about Preferences in the System Folder? Could the ad text be
stored there? Could an altered preference file trigger a
javascript error alert? I wonder how much hassle she would have if
she dumped the Netscape User preference folder?
>
> Another thought: Sawney, how sure are you that she is in fact requesting
> the exact same page as you do? Even 1 single 'minor' typo, and she'd be
> requesting something else - something that just might look similar to
> what she tries to get at, but isn't the same.

She reads me what she has typed in, and it works when I type it.
It works when she types it into other browsers. For three months
it worked with Netscape.
>
> If Communicator's URL field offers one of those awful implementations of
> auto-completion, it might even be that she starts typing the correct
> URL, and then Communicator 'helpfully' fills in the rest, but
> incorrectly - without her realising it.

I'll ask her to read me the url after she presses enter.
>
.

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