How can I expand the IE7 error message “This program cannot display the webpage” to Debug?

Question

Is there a way to get Ie7 to expand on the error message “This program cannot display the webpage”?

I have turned off friendly error messages but this has not helped.

The background is that intermittently I get the error while using IE7 navigating to a around a particular a website. However I know the server has returned the web page with a 200 OK HTTP code as I can see this in fiddler. If I take the HTML code form the returned page out of fiddler and save it I can load it in IE with no issues.

Answer 1

I don't know how to debug in IE7 (I'm not a MS person). In case it helps, it sounds like you may be hitting a timing problem or interference with some antivirus software.

Answer 2

You could try using HttpWatch. The free basic edition shows error codes that were raised within IE and it may help you to diagnose this problem.

DISCLAIMER: this answer was provided by Simtec Limited the makers of HttpWatch

Answer 3

You could also try Fiddler