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AndiRobinson
Iron Contributor
Aug 31, 2021

Problems accessing sites except in InPrivate mode

I started using Edge a couple of months ago and have recently discovered that there are a couple of websites that I can only access when in InPrivate mode. They are different types of sites:    - T...
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AndiRobinson
Iron Contributor
Sep 07, 2021
IT is my next stop. I figured I would ask the Edge experts first. Thanks!
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NielArmstrong
Copper Contributor
Apr 18, 2023

AndiRobinson 

I am in the process of suffering this exact issue.

Please anyone dont start asking me to delete cache and cookies. (Sigh!) PHP gos way further than  deleted cache and cookies.

 

I'm a technologist, pretty high profile, and the forums I create are varied and phpbb3 running obviously via a SQL back end database.

Suddenly... for reasons I cannot fathom (and no changes have been made to systems this end)  SOME computers in our setup (not all therefore) suffer this...

 

We can log into the php phpbb3 forum, start to make a post , cannot upload an image even though it says it has been uploaded , cannot thereafter upload another one whereas we should be able to, nothing appears when we preview the post it crashes with a simple http error window, the PLACE INLINE image button is missing.....

 

This DOESNT happen when using a private window. Everything works fine.

 

Using a normal window the failings happen.

 

Across ALL browsers used on certain devices.

 

My issue was initially it was the devices that failed the php processing.

 

But after study it would seem something serverside sees something in these devices and refuses full php processing via normal browser windows.

 

Since 1995 when I first started out programing I have never ever seen anything like this.

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    davejb
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 01, 2023

    NielArmstrong 

     

    I am presently experiencing the issue you are with links not working except in Private Mode. Well, on my server I had an .htaccess file, which contained the following:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^(www\.)?givehopeguatemala\.org$ [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://givehopeguatemala.org/$1 [L,R=301]
    </IfModule>

     

    I removed this file and access to the links returned to normal in standard web windows.

    I did not write this file myself, it is something I found some years ago.

     

    Cheerio, David Beck.

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