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Subject:
Website unaccessable from AOL Browser using Dial-up.
Category: Computers > Internet Asked by: dautenhahn-ga List Price: $20.00 |
Posted:
21 Nov 2005 08:21 PST
Expires: 21 Dec 2005 08:21 PST Question ID: 595764 |
I run a website www.lees-summit.com. This website was recently moved from one webserver to a different webserver on a different IP address. I do not know for certain that it was available to aol dialup users before the switch, but I think yes. Since then AOL users can access the website if they are using IE with their dialup account, but can not if they are using the AOL browser. AOL does not want to help me since I am not an AOL customer. Any Ideas on what might be the problem? |
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Subject:
Re: Website unaccessable from AOL Browser using Dial-up.
From: senatus-ga on 21 Nov 2005 08:56 PST |
Greetings, The AOL browser is a substandard, stripped down version of Internet explorer. It was designed to be small enough to fit in their downloadable file versions instead of requiring a seperate download. As a result, this browser lacks a lot of functionality that Firefox, safari and IE have. So it is possible that your website has some type of functionality that the embed browser doesn't support, so it can't display the page properly. There are multiple possibilities, but they almost all go back to errors on the AOL browser. Quite frankly, even if you were an AOL customer, AOL would be unlikely to help you with this problem. They do not block website access from their customers intentionally, so the default answer would be that you are having problems with your computer or AOL version and should consider reinstalling, defragmenting, clearing your cache or other such (often pointless under the circumstances) types of suggestions. AOLs download is fine as transfer times go, but if you are trying to view websites you really need to use an external browser -- Firefox being my personal preference. AOL's browser has been behind the industry standard since their 2.0 version, and is unlikely to catch up anytime soon. |
Subject:
Re: Website unaccessable from AOL Browser using Dial-up.
From: geozop-ga on 07 Dec 2005 21:06 PST |
This is not really an exact answer, but I recommend testing each portion of your website. Upload an html file with text and very simple html tags, and add in portions of the website to be tested in the good ol' AOL browser until you find the part(s) it cannot handle. |
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