IE 8 showing "Cassini web server error 400"

[christheman]

Under normal circumstances I would just ditch IE8, but another one of my apps is hard-wired to use it (no, I am not the one who hard-wired it). So I need for IE8 to be able to pull up NEWA again. FF29 on the same machine works like a dream. I don't use Chrome, so no idea on that, but it would be irrelevant for me anyhow.

In particular I am now getting a error 400 "/Application" message when I try and pull up the SearchResults.aspx page and then click on the Table View option. It basically looks like it is timing out. The default Tree View takes a while to come up, but is of no use to me...

I tried CCleaner and then uninstalling and reinstalling IE8 to no avail. Same error. Not only is this consistently happening now, but in fact I never had it happen in the past two years quite like this.

IE8 works as usual everywhere else I checked. It is just slow with NPVR/NEWA.

Any thoughts on settings or other things to check? The actual NPVR/NEWA machine seems to be fine on these pages using IE6 BTW (the crummy version that came with Windows XP).

My problems are with a laptop that I only use to schedule programs via NEWA (but it is not running NPVR or running as a client.)

Any outside resources change recently?

[christheman]

Huh. Well I tried it again this morning and it is back to working 100%. Before I went to bed it was 100% failure rate. Now it just works again.

Last night I uninstalled IE8, removed all my settings, then reinstalled it. Also I replaced the NEWA Web directory on my NPVR machine with a clean directory (from original zip file), just in case a file may have been lost or something. After that (and rebooting both machines several times) I couldn't get it to work at least once. Now it works fine.

So I am thinking either something corrected overnight on my NPVR machine...or else there are may be outside resources which NPVR/NEWA depends upon that may have been unavailable for a while, but only when using IE8. (Firefox 29 totally immune to this).