On 3/26/2014 11:20 AM, »Q« wrote:
> In <news:[email protected]>,
> "Paul B. Gallagher" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> When trying to view stories at nydailynews.com, I often get this
>> error message:
>>
>> Content Encoding Error
>>
>> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an 
>> invalid or unsupported form of compression.
>>
>> The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an 
>> invalid or unsupported form of compression.
>>
>>      Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.
>>
>>      [Try again]
>>
>> [end quote]
>>
>> What's up with that? IE never has any problem displaying the pages,
>> but SM won't even show me the source code.
>>
>> Here's an example, but pretty much any story from the "Editor's
>> Picks" rubric on the right side of their pages does this:
>>
>> <http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/drug-testing-welfare-recipients-big-mistake-conservatives-article-1.1734098>
> 
> gzip compression is what's being used, but that's been standard on the
> web for many years, and SM supports it fine.
> 
> My only guess is that what you're getting is being mangled by a
> transparent proxy between you and the server.  Using shift+reload
> *might* get around it.
> 
> 
> 

You might also try viewing the Web page in Safe Mode.  I don't see any
problem with AdBlock Plus, Flashblock, or Secret Agent; but some other
extension in your configuration might be causing problems.

-- 

David E. Ross
<http://www.rossde.com/>

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