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Grex Internet Item 143: The Weird Problems Item
Entered by rcurl on Tue Apr 20 03:53:46 UTC 1999:

A general item for asking/answering questions about weird problems
encountered on interacting with web pages.

3 responses total.

#1 of 3 by rcurl on Tue Apr 20 04:02:00 1999:

I tried to make an online order from the secure order page for
http://www.alfaelectronics.com/  Besides form boxes to fill out,
there are a few menu buttons for choosing country and shipping
method. The choices at the top of the menus were United States
and UPS. I chose those, and submitted my order, but got an error
message saying that I had no filled out a country or a shipping
method. Repetition did not help. I e-mailed the company and 
explained the problem, and they said they tested their order page
and found no problems. I tried again, with the same refusal to
accept the top choices in the menus. So I tried selecting United
States further down in the menu (it was repeated), and US Postal
Service instead of UPS. The form accepted these, and I could place
the order. Can anyone imagine why the first (top) choices in the
menus could not be chosen by *me*, but are apparently OK for others?
(I am using Netscape 4.51 on a PowerMac 7200/120 via Merit.)

#2 of 3 by keesan on Thu Aug 24 04:10:50 2000:

Did you ever figure out why the Post Office worked but not UPS?

I have another weird problem.  I have been using four ISPs to test a DOS-based
browser.  They all work with Netscape.  Three worked with that browser and
the fourth did not until I increased free conv. RAM from 588 to 640 and files
from 60 to 80.  Why?  
The browser would dial and connect okay but not access websites.  Usually it
crashed with an out of conventional RAM error message and I had to turn the
computer off and on, but sometimes it would just give the message that it
could not establish a connection to the requested host.  Once I think it
actually connected.  Favorites files got corrupted when I tried to access
them.  Why this one ISP?  They don't know of anything that they are doing
differently.  
The software recommends 30 files and 520K free RAM.  I suggested that they
increase these numbers.  So why does Netscape work and they don't?

#3 of 3 by rcurl on Thu Aug 24 05:46:20 2000:

My weird problem was never explained or solved.

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