Re: debian-to-windows message transfer
On Saturday 16 November 2024 01:03:34 pm Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > Debian machines are on the 192.168.1.xxx network. I keep a W10
> > machine on the 192.168.2.x network, primarily to access the chewy.com
> > web site which, since about June, serves my Debian machines a blank
> > white page.
>
> I've been thinking about this some more, and I'd like to try to list
> all the ways the OP might have caused this to fail.
>
> We start by observing that nobody else has been able to reproduce the
> OP's failure. Several people (including myself) have responded saying
> that chewy.com works just fine for them from a Debian web browser.
> So, the problem appears to be unique to the OP's setup.
>
> What could cause this?
>
> * Wrong browser. We don't know which browser the OP is using primarily;
> in a follow-up, they said they've tried Firefox, Chromium, and Brave.
> Other people have reported that it works in Firefox and Chrome.
>
> * Browser configuration. The OP might have installed an add-on that's
> interfering with this site, or they might have changed a setting.
> A few people have suggested that the OP try a pristine browser profile,
> or a pristine user account with no customizations.
>
> * Firewall. The OP mentions separate networks. It's unclear whether
> the configuration of the router/firewall is different between the
> two networks. A firewall could be blocking traffic to some web
> server(s) that are needed to render this site, or there could be
> a misbehaving proxy, etc. Moving the Debian host to the other network
> might be a quick way to test this.
>
> * DNS blocking. Some people edit their /etc/hosts files to prevent
> connections to various hosts, and then they often forget they've
> done this. The OP might want to check whether their /etc/hosts file
> has been modified. Or, if the Debian system is running its own
> nameserver, the nameserver's configuration should be checked (or
> temporarily switch the local nameserver to the one used by the
> Windows systems).
>
> Anything else?
I routinely get that "blank white page" result in firefox here, and find that fiddling with the settings in the noscript plugin often fixes it. OTOH, if a web site wants to be *that* obnoxious I'll often decide that they're not worth the trouble of bothering with. :-)
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