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Eric Wendelin
Asked: 2010-01-09 11:34:16 +0800 CST

Website erroring in IE6 only, all other browsers fine

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I was just trying to check out one of my websites on IE6, and I receive an error saying "Internet Explorer cannot open the Internet site... Operation Aborted".

Now it turns out that when I try the same site on Firefox on the same machine (VirtualBox WinXP VM) it works. Other websites I host on the same machine also work in IE6, so it's not like the box is unreachable. In fact, my server logs show a 200 status that the page was reached.

If it matters, I'm running WordPress for the site, so I think it could be a PHP thing at this point. However, my other WordPress site on the same box (which is Debian Lenny, btw) loads just fine. So weird.

Many thanks for any help.

UPDATE: Just replaced home page with static HTML and it loaded. Looks like it could a PHP issue. Is it possible there is some difference in how IE6 acts with PHP as opposed to other IE versions?

UPDATE 2: I'm on WP 2.9.1 and have disabled all of my plugins. Interestingly, I see the title of the site for a brief time for the error pops up. Does that pretty much confirm that it's PHP related? I'm using PHP 5 if that matters.

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Issue fixed. Problem is that you cannot write to the HEAD HTML element before it is closed, caused by my moving my asynchronous Google Analytics script there.

    See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927917

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  2. Check proxy settings of IE6, it may be using some random proxy.

    Also, it goes without saying, you should probably move away from IE6, offer a JS pop up that alerts the user to upgrade their browser.

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