Timewaster's Guide Archive
General => Everything Else => Topic started by: charity on January 11, 2008, 07:51:17 PM
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"This web page is being redirected to a new location. Would you like to resend the form data you have typed to the new location?"
What does that mean? And why is it that all of a sudden it's asking me?
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Is it for this site or any site.
Also what browers and OS?
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various sites... I am using Firefox. I couldn't tell you which sites cause it seems to be random... but I'm sure there's a pattern I just haven't picked up on it.
see... I tried to make that smaller.... sorry
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg22/cannwin/Capture-1.jpg)
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the site is probably using some type of header redirect, we use on at log-in I'm not sure if there's any other place we do, to change the url you're viewing and when it's doing that you've got information that needs to be sent as well so Firefox is prompting you for permission to send that information (since it's to a different location). This is probably some security feature they recently implemented, though I'd run some spyware detecting program to make sure this isn't anything malicious.
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I ran a virus scan and nothing came up... I opened IE and it doesn't seem to be happening in there. So if it some new thing they implemented than how do I get it to STOP! it's driving me nuts! (not to mention making me nervous, I'm very virus paranoid... it drives my brother nuts)
What's an OS?
ps. thanks for helping me :)
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OS = Operating System
I'll re-update firefox when I'm at home and see if it happens to me.
There will be something in the options to prevent the warning, I'm certain.
also, what did you use to perform the virus scan?
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An AV scan may not catch it if it doesn't scan for spyware. I'm not even sure there is anything go on to be honest but since this is something I'm not aware of in Firefox (though I don't tend to use it often) there could be the small possibility of something trying to change your URL from one site to another to farm information, you'd notice a similar URL but somehow different. Since this isn't happening with IE it makes me believe you've got something set on FireFix that doesn't like Sessions, form information being sent or something similar.
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I used Avira... I tried to go online and do one of those online scans from Trend Micro, but it popped up something about bonding -er- something (seriously I know next to nothing about this stuff).
It's still doing it though, mostly when I go to google or Winsor.org which is our family website. I'll call my brother in law and see what he says (he runs the website)
Thanks.
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Ewido is the single best malware scanner I've ever dealt with. You can get a scan online.
http://www.ewido.net/en/onlinescan/
try that.
I have the latest Firefox and I'm not getting this on Google. It makes me suspect something is going on that's not good. What exactly are you doing on Google when it happens?
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Well, that scan found a bunch of cookies.... but it didn't fix the problem.
All I have to do is open firefox, which immediately goes to my family site (my homepage) then when it's done loading the little thing comes up. If I go to google at all, it pops up. someone said to go into my security settings then to warning messages and just click off of it, but it's not in there. Someone else said to just dump firefox, sounds like a good idea at this point....
I'll keep looking into it and tell you what happens.
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In the Firefox browser go to Tools --> Options --> Security Tab --> There should be a section at the bottom that says Warning Messages.. click the button that says Settings and see which of the checkboxes you have marked.
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the warning (so that you can see it)
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg22/cannwin/Capture-2.jpg)
My security settings:
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg22/cannwin/Capture1.jpg)
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hah, you're on Vista not XP so it doesn't matter what the rest of us try.
Let me load up my Vista machine and load FF on it and see what happens, this could very well be an issue with FF not fully supporting some new security setting on Vista. I assume you're using FireFox 2.x and not 1, 1.5 or 3 Beta? You can fid that in Help -> About Firefox
There's also a firefox safemode you and try running, if this still happens it's a FF/Vista issue.
Ok so I'm not getting this with FF2 on Vista, but I'm running Vista SP1 which I'm sure you're not (it's still in beta) so it will be Monday until I can test on a non-SP machine.
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Spriggan you are so kind. I am using Firefox 2.0.o.11 (which I'm sure is just 2.0, but whats the rest for?)
I will try the safe mode...
Nothing! it doesn't happen in the safe mode... what does that mean? It's just a firefox problem?
It asked me this when I opened safe mode.
(http://i244.photobucket.com/albums/gg22/cannwin/Capture-3.jpg)
You know now that I think about it theme (or was it an add-on) updated recently.. could that be an issue? I think I'll go try that out.
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I am running the same version of FF on Vista Ultimate and I have the same setting on FF so I don't think that is the problem as it doesn't happen to me, but it very well could be your add ons... if you go to Tools --> add-ons you can disable them all and then turn them on one by one to see which one may be causing the problem.. I had a problem that was caused by an extension once upon a time. Granted you will have to restart FF each time you change the status of an extension, so the setting can take effect.
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Ha ha! I've found it! (or rather my brother in law did) it's my StumbleUpon add-on. I disabled all of them and it stopped, so then I enabled them one by one, and voila! there you go.... so he told me to uninstall it and re-install (since I like my stumble add-on) and so far no problems.
So, why is that?
Thanks for all your help guys! :D
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yup. Gotta watch those FF toolbars. I think people get carried away with them myself. I use all of two.
(also, I tested it on vista as well, but that's beside the point now that it's fixed).
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I only have three of them. But Stumble was my favorite... I reinstalled it and not half hour after I posted it started doing it again, so :'( I guess no stumbling for me.
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That would be the downside of 3rd tools.. especially when FF changed the rules for a few things during its version change. :) Give it time and i am sure you shall be stumbling again.
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That's also the biggest problem with Open Source source is compatibility between versions, programmers hate having to do it (because the new code is usually more efficient and secure so they don't want to support the old method) and they don't have anyone testing this stuff for compatibility nor do they have paying costumers getting mad at them (because there are not paying costumers) because all the sudden all their plug-ins stopped working.
It's hard to tell who's causing Charity's problem, my guess would be Stumble Upon, a lot of people don't bother learning the difference between Vista and XP despite there being some significant differences and assume what they're doing will be handled the same by both OSs.
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yeah.. that is pretty much what i was thinking.. I just wasnt feeling in a very wordy mood.. good job ;P
**remembers his place and runs to the flogging pit**
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LOL... I like open source, free and legal, I can't complain, but I'm also very new to it. My brother just told me about it when I got this laptop (for mother's day last year) and I wanted a word program, he introduced me to Open Office, since I don't use it for much more than typing all my daydreams into words. :-[
It's probably for the best that I can't stumble anymore, I do have a family.... somewhere.
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I don't have anything against it, but there are negatives with the positives just like anything else.