websites not opening

[corpse]

When you click on certain websites and it just says "done" on the bottom and nothing happens, is that the fault of the site or the computer. Computer is running quite slow. XP Home

[Foo]

Could be either.

What appears in the browser? Blank white page, error message, or remains on the page you were on previously?

[+JuggerNaut+]

"certain", but not "all" so that's good. for kicks, clean up your shit with CCleaner

[corpse]

Could be either.

What appears in the browser? Blank white page, error message, or remains on the page you were on previously?

Blank white page

[Foo]

That's a problem with your local PC I think.

You'll need to do some work to figure out what stage the 'request' for a page is getting to.

Try pinging the website address (start cmd "ping google.com") and make sure the websites that are failing are coming back with their correct IP addresses and soforth.

Check with a different browser to see if it behaves the same.

Check what DNS servers you are connecting to (Start cmd "ipconfig /all") and if it's pointing at your home router, check that to see what address it's picking up also.

When a website won't load, you'll usually get a meaningful message when it won't. - If it isn't responding to any request, your browser should display a page that says it couldn't reach the server.
- If the server responds but it doesn't have the page you requested, you should get a '404' error page which the website provides to your browser
- If the server is having temporary problems you should get a '500' error page back from it to let you know this

and so on. More errors here:
http://www.modemhelp.net/httperrors/httperrors.shtml

Blank white page is unusual. This could be a bad proxy or DNS setting which is redirecting you to the wrong website. Or a problem with a pop-up blockers. Or I'm forgetting something really obvious and someone is going to wade in with a 1-line fix in a sec

Try right-clicking the blank page and selecting properties or view source, and see if there's anything meaningful there.

[DTS]

A while ago with IE 6, on some sites it would say "done" then load some more, then say "done", then load some more and so on until the page was all loaded. I use Firefox now and that tells you what addresses it's connecting to or loading, and doesn't say "done" until there're no more addresses to load from.

It's either some update that was done for IE 6 (could be the same with IE 7 too), or the way some websites are designed nowadays, or a combination of the two.

It could be ad scripts getting stuck loading, with Adblock, a Firefox plugin, you can block a script that's giving the browser trouble loading the page, by reading the URL displayed where it will say "done" and adding that to your block list (it will be listed for you to just click on to add it, you don't have to type it in (but you can)).

In IE you can click Stop, File/Work Offline, then click Go and the page can load without the elements that were getting the page stuck loading before (could be ads). The same might work in Firefox, I'm not sure cause I haven't had much need to use it in Firefox.

[^misantropia^]

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telnet www.somesite.com 80
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.somesite.com
[enter twice]

Does it dump out a slab of HTML now?

[corpse]

Was doing a couple of other odd things so I just formatted and reinstaled.

Thanks for the help

[+JuggerNaut+]

lol