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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: Another Safari puzzle
Date: 17 Mar 2014 22:27:40 GMT
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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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