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Re: Another Safari puzzle

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On 2014-03-17, Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
> In article <barmar-E03E8C.14050417032014@news.eternal-september.org>,
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
>> In article <170320141748398394%timstreater@greenbee.net>,
>>  Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> wrote:
>> 
>> > Just reading the "Safari puzzle" thread - I have something which may or
>> > may not be similar. Sometimes (and this situation may last for a few
>> > days and then go away for a few days) I have a problem reaching a
>> > website - such as news.bbc.co.uk. The page just refuses to complete
>> > loading, and will sometimes abort (X at the end of the address bar) and
>> > a messed up page (as if, for example, some style sheets didn't load).
>> > Reloading and reloading doesn't help.
>> > 
>> > But, I can then click on a link within the page, and the linked-to page
>> > loads properly immediately (well, within the expected delay, anyway),
>> > and then that page has a link back to the news page - which also then
>> > loads properly very quickly. So it's another puzzle but I'll try the
>> > defualts write and see if that makes a difference.
>> 
>> Open the Activity window, it should higlight which bits of the page it 
>> had trouble loading.
>
> This is the sort of thing I see in the Error Console:
>
> [Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of
> 408 (Request Time-out) (global.css, line 0)
>
> [Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of
> 408 (Request Time-out) (embed.js, line 0)
>
> The servers referred to are such as news.bbcimg.co.uk, so perhaps the
> DNS is not implicated. I tried the defaults write as listed in the
> other thread to no avail (I restarted Safari after doing it).

Could be a routing issue with your router, your ISP, or somewhere else
upstream from you as well. 

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JR

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Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-17 17:48 +0000
  Re: Another Safari puzzle Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> - 2014-03-17 14:05 -0400
    Re: Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-17 21:35 +0000
      Re: Another Safari puzzle Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 22:27 +0000
      Re: Another Safari puzzle Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-03-26 16:03 +0100
        Re: Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-26 16:20 +0000
  Re: Another Safari puzzle Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 18:15 +0000
    Re: Another Safari puzzle Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2014-03-17 16:31 -0400
      Re: Another Safari puzzle Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2014-03-17 22:26 +0000
  Re: Another Safari puzzle Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2014-03-17 23:39 -0700
    Re: Another Safari puzzle Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2014-03-18 13:34 +0000

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