From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2006-07-11T06:47:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails: http://localhost:3000/say/list_rcv OK on FireFox; nil on IE

On 7/10/06, Richard <RichardDummyMailbox58407@uscomputergurus.com> wrote:
>
> Robert Klemme wrote:
> > Not sure ATM.
>
> Thanks for your additional response.
>
> I assume "ATM" has nothing to do with banking machines, but is instead
> an abbreviation for "at the moment." :-)  And I can't fault you for
> that! :-)
>
> But there may be light at the end of the tunnel:  I decided to retrace
> my steps in building this Rails app.  When I was ready to run the first
> test,  it ran beautifully in FireFox, as before.
>
> I then fired up IE.  Lo and behold,  even though IE's address bar was
> set to my home page,  the client area was populated with introductory
> Rails stuff: "Welcome aboard.  You're riding the Rails!"
>
> I went to check the Proxy settings,  but the button to access them was
> grayed out.  I believe I had set them to 127.0.0.1 and 3000,  which you
> indicated was a misapprehension of your suggestion.
>
> When I piped in the address http://localhost:3000/say/list_pmts to IE,
> the client area went blank.  It failed to produce the heading "Payments
> List" that FireFox displayed.
>
> Does this give you any other ideas?  One question comes to mind:  how
> can I clear the Proxy settings if the Settings button in Internet
> Options | Connections is grayed out?
>
> Again,  thanks in advance for any further ideas you may offer.
>
> Best wishes,
> Richard
>
>
Hi Richard - did you see my earlier message? We had problems with IE 6
on XP SP2 when we had underscores in the urls. When we removed them,
the problem disappeared.

Regards,
Sean