Need Help with Gibberish

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 1:32 am

I'm asking for help for my friend. She is trying to get to a website that comes up as "gibberish." I don't know what else to call it. All it is is little boxes or squares and letters that spell nothing. I've gotten emails with such stuff but never a website. I don't know what causes it.

My friend was originally trying to get to the site by clicking on a link in an old email. But even typing in the url gave her gibberish.

The website looks fine to me both on IE and Firefox. My friend uses IE so we deleted her temp files and cookies, that didn't produce any results. Then I called my tech support as she has none and asked for help and he suggested

using a different browser. I had my friend install Firefox, selecting it as her default browser and the website is still gibberish!

I don't know what else to advise her to do. We uninstalled Firefox.

The url is: www.jodyholsinger.teamspace.com

I wouldn't trouble anyone with this normally but my friend needs to access this website for her job so it's important. Thank you for any help you can offer.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:50 am

Thank you RJ! I'll pass this info onto her.

littlemissgiggle · Post by **littlemissgiggle** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:54 am

Red, I have just clicked on that link that you posted and it says -----

Not Found

The requested URL /forums/www.jodyholsinger.teamspace.com was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2.0.61 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.0.61 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 PHP/5.2.4 Server at www.forumgarden.com Port 80

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:42 am

Yes I get the same a gigglenicks:wah::wah:

Maybe its a server problem so quick stop her ravaging her pc looking for faults:wah:

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:50 am

I think that was my fault the way I posted it...I've done that wrong before. I can be such a doofus with the littlest of things. The website (not this link) works for me but not for her at all.

Post by **spot** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:25 am

It works for me too Red, once I jimmy your URL so it makes sense.

What browser is she using that gives her the gibberish screen?

Can she change her Character Encoding to either "Default" or "Western" and tell you what it was previously set to and whether that cleans up the display?

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:27 am

spot;744628 wrote: It works for me too Red, once I jimmy your URL so it makes sense.

What browser is she using that gives her the gibberish screen?

Can she change her Character Encoding to either "Default" or "Western" and tell you what it was previously set to and whether that cleans up the display?

what is jimmy her URL

Post by **spot** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:28 am

Adjust the content of her URL so it's valid. It ought to be this.

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:35 am

spot;744628 wrote: It works for me too Red, once I jimmy your URL so it makes sense.

What browser is she using that gives her the gibberish screen?

Can she change her Character Encoding to either "Default" or "Western" and tell you what it was previously set to and whether that cleans up the display?

Spot, she's using Internet Explorer. I know she had played with the coding last night but didn't know what to leave it on so I will call this morning and ask her about that. Thank you.

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Sat Dec 22, 2007 7:57 am

och aye jimmy :wah::wah::wah:

well done Spot:-4