I am using Visual Web Developer express and when I try to display the webpage I'm working on in a browser Internet Explorer cannot find the page. When I ask Internet Explorer to diagnose the problem I got the message ""localhost" is not set up to extablish a connection on port "52429" with this computer."
Any ideas what to do?
Not sure if I understand your question correctly.
Your web page is probably stored on the local hard disk, but you are trying to access it thru some sort of server running on your PC.
Web browser can actually load pages from the hard disk. For example, if your page is in c:\test, you could just type "c:\test\index.html" into the address bar.
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I’m building a PHP web application that runs only using Google Chrome. The organization would like to be able to access certain folders via windows explorer. This is easy in IE using the file:/// protocol but I can’t seem to find a good solution using Chrome.
I’ve looked into registering custom protocol handlers but haven’t really found the answer I’m looking for there. This requirement is grained in stone; they do not want to access the files via web browser.
Does anyone know if there’s a way to launch windows explorer from google chrome either through a special protocol handler or by temporarily launching IE to get the file path to open? A simple method or example would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance.
A user of my website is having a problem that I can't reproduce. It is maddening to debug, because all I can really ask the user (nontechnical person) is their OS version and browser version.
Is there an extension for Chrome/Firefox, or any other software, that can basically record the user's session with a webpage from the client perspective? Akin to everything you'd see in the Chrome Developer toolbar, recorded into a "dump" file that I could analyze? Files downloaded, DOM loaded, javascript events, etc.
Im not sure about a extension for Chrome/FireFox but you could use software such as Windows Remote Desktop or TeamViewer if the User was willing to allow you access to their CPU. Depending on the issue, you might also be able to check your server log files to see where the user is getting an error.
Another solution might be to write a script to keep track of what is clicked by users who visit your webpages. I believe GreaseMonkey add on for Firefox might help you with this.
Remote Software
Source: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2091801/5-alternatives-to-logmein-free-for-remote-pc-access.html
GreasreMonkey
Source: How to detect clicks on specific links in page with Greasemonkey?
I know you can't open/link local resources from the browsers for security reasons, but i wonder how google does that.
If you ever used Google Desktop, you know you can search your computer from a web page, and yes, you can open files, folders etc. How is that?
Anyone?
We're writing a Windows client application in VB.NET. On the first launch of the application it loads a local HTML file "User Guide" for the user to get acquainted with the new software. There is also a menu option to access the content which also produces the same error. Whenever the page is launched, a dialog box appears stating that "The system could not find the specified file.", and then the browser windows loads the content. This is IE8 specific, as we previously tested with IE6 and 7 as well as Firefox with no problems.
Apparently this behavior is also happening within Outlook 2007 for some of our users whenever they click a link in an email, but only on the first link they click.
Also, one condition for the error to appear is that no IE8 window is currently running, otherwise another tab opens and loads the content just fine. We get this error on XP and Vista.
So far this is all I have found about the issue:
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/conversation.aspx?messageid=34394054&threadid=34361999
http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?query=general+failure.+the+url+was+&dg=microsoft.public.outlook.general&cat=en_US_db03bd1f-73aa-41e1-abfd-27a6e3c352e5&lang=en&cr=US&pt=&catlist=&dglist=&ptlist=&exp=&sloc=en-us&mid=cb1e6b6d-71fd-4351-ae98-c10fccf5809c
Anything would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Esactly the same issue; problem was resolved by disabling a specific add-on:
"Sophos Web Content Scanner"
So, looks like anti-virus add-ons are the culprit here - or IE8 itself.
Problem can also be reproduced (when add-on is running) by simply entering a url into the Start box on Vista.
The issue is caused by the McAfee Host Intrusion Prevention service. Stopping the service mitigates the issue. So the answer is to contact the team who runs the HIPs application.
Has anyone encountered the following problem: I have IIS7 running on my computer. On that same computer, I open IE7 and the website works (http://localhost/web.site/Default.aspx). Put that same url in Firefox 3 and I get the welcome screen of IIS7, a big image with IIS7 in the middle and 'Welcome' in several different languages. Clicking on the image leads you to http://www.iis.net/.
One browser accesses your server via 127.0.0.1, and another via your external IP.
Make sure virtualhost works with all network interfaces.
Perhaps your browsers have different locals set , only guessing as I have not used IIS7
Strange. That happened to me this morning (April 9, 2009), but the other way around. I was trying to get to Dell.ca. IE7 brought me to that IIS7 Welcome screen and Firefox brought me to the correct site. Happened 3 times before it corrected itself.
I do not have IIS anywhere on my network and my default home page is Google, which came up without a problem. The redirection occurred when I typed the new URL. I wonder if Dell is using IIS7...