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Re: Another Safari puzzle

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In article <lr6b0b-nq22.ln1@news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture
<nospam@sture.ch> wrote:

> 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).
> 
> Did the new setting survive the restart?  Various apps rewrite the settings
> on exit, so it's safer to exit, do the defaults write bit, then restart.

Odd you should ask now, I was just foaming at the mouth about it. There
are other sites that become hard to reach such as dpreview.com.

I just did the defaults write again, the odd thing is it seems to
immediately improve matters, but with the space of a few clicks its
back to "normal". I tried FF to no improvement. Meanwhile, twitter is
unaffected.

It really is a pain in the bum.

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with what Bob in accounting bought last year. Trace it back - they buy
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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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