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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