why does ie8 "cannot display the webpage" page coceal the actual error

Instead of telling you what actually happened (such as: dns lookup failed,
server rejected tcp connection), which is useful information, it shows a
static page of guesses. Is there any way to change this?

What page?

_ wrote:
> Instead of telling you what actually happened (such as: dns lookup failed,
> server rejected tcp connection), which is useful information, it shows a
> static page of guesses. Is there any way to change this?

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> What page?

Not sure what you are asking. I am referring to the ie8 "cannot display the
webpage" error page.

Cite a webpage (link; URL) where you encounter this error.

What anti-virus application or security suite is installed, is your
subscription current, and is it supported in IE8? What anti-spyware
applications (other than Defender)? What third-party firewall (if any)?
Were any of these applications running in the background when you installed
IE8?

Has a Norton or McAfee application ever been installed on this machine
(e.g., a free-trial version that came preinstalled when you bought it)?

_ wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23gqiKeXsJHA.1300@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> What page?
>
> Not sure what you are asking. I am referring to the ie8 "cannot display
> the
> webpage" error page.

"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Cite a webpage (link; URL) where you encounter this error.
>

I guess you didn't understand the first post, I am not asking for help
accessing any given url. I am asking why the error page conceals the cause
of the problem and if there is any setting that will force it to reveal it.

You can generate the error page by navigating to a non existent host (dns
error) or a non listening port on a real host (tcp connection error). The
ie8 error page will not tell you what actually failed, dns, tcp or whatever
other subsystem.

If you choose not to quote my entire replies and only answer selective
questions, I can't help you. Good luck.

_ wrote:
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:ekNu75XsJHA.1492@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Cite a webpage (link; URL) where you encounter this error.
>>
>
> I guess you didn't understand the first post, I am not asking for help
> accessing any given url. I am asking why the error page conceals the
> cause
> of the problem and if there is any setting that will force it to reveal
> it.
>
> You can generate the error page by navigating to a non existent host (dns
> error) or a non listening port on a real host (tcp connection error). The
> ie8 error page will not tell you what actually failed, dns, tcp or
> whatever
> other subsystem.

----- Original Message -----
From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: why does ie8 "cannot display the webpage" page coceal the
actual error


> If you choose not to quote my entire replies and only answer selective
> questions, I can't help you. Good luck.
>

You have shown no sign of even understanding the question. That is why you
can't help.

If anyone from MS is reading, IE8 certainly knows what type of failure was
encountered, DNS lookup, TCP connection, etc. There should be at least an
option to show this information to the user.

Try to go to settings (Internet options), Advanced, disable Show Friendly
HTTP error messages.

But when it's a script fails, and IE displays little cute "Operation
aborted" box (and then resets already shown page), I agree, it sucks.

<_> wrote in message news:e2V1dpYsJHA.4632@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <PABearMVP@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 6:04 PM
> Subject: Re: why does ie8 "cannot display the webpage" page coceal the
> actual error
>
>
>> If you choose not to quote my entire replies and only answer selective
>> questions, I can't help you. Good luck.
>>
>
> You have shown no sign of even understanding the question. That is why
> you can't help.
>
> If anyone from MS is reading, IE8 certainly knows what type of failure was
> encountered, DNS lookup, TCP connection, etc. There should be at least an
> option to show this information to the user.
>

"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Try to go to settings (Internet options), Advanced, disable Show Friendly
> HTTP error messages.

I already tried that and it has not effect. Both dns and connection errors
still produce the generic "cannot display" error page with no information.
Are you getting something different?

> PA Bear [MS MVP] wrote:
> Cite a webpage (link; URL) where you encounter this error.

My 2c worth...
I find that this error is completely random, it can occur on any web
page. Pressing F5 or CTRL F5 IE8 connects to the web page.
The next time I go to that web page it doesn't happen (I dont get the
error.)

The symptoms are:
You click on a link in Google and IE8 immediately says 'cannot display
web page' with reasons why (offline, web site down, etc), and possible
fixes.
Or you type in a url and it happens. Or you click on a favourites
icon/link and it happens

Pressing F5 or CTRL F5 forces IE8 to display the website.

Some of the websites it has happened on are:

My homepage: http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~mlvburke (just happened
now as I'm typing this, F5 fixed it)
Major Geeks: http://www.majorgeeks.com/
Google home page (NZ Google and Google.com)
Wikipedia home page

And numerous other websites since installing IE8 RTM

I haven't been able to determine any pattern to it, and it's the last
annoyance with IE8 RTM that I want to fix. The URLMON crashes seem to
have stopped, I haven't had any for the last 3 days.

I have re-installed Spyware Blaster with it's immunise option disabled
and IE8 is working fine with it installed.