"WilliamL" <> wrote in message
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> Just to make thing clearer, after I'd clicked either one of the link under
> the two categories which is "Select by type" and "Select by product", It
> would redirect me to microsoft update homepage which is
> http://www.update.microsoft.com/microsoftupdate/v6/
This still doesn't tell us how you are getting started.
Also you have not disclosed any details about your OS or browser.
FWIW when I start from IE7 in XPsp2 with the Tools, Windows Update
menu item this link starts opening:
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/
which then redirects (apparently, according to what is then put in the
Address bar) here:
http://update.microsoft.com/microsof....aspx?ln=en-us
>> I'm having this problem where after I'd scanned my computer in microsoft
>> update website, It would display a list of updates available for me at the
>> right frame, at the left frame, it would display information such as "Select
>> by type","High Priority (9)","Software , Optional (12)" etc.
Nothing like that appears in the above link. So perhaps you started with
the above link and clicked on the button labeled Custom - Select from
optional and high-priority updates for Windows and other programs ?
Clicking on that gives a message in the right frame:
Checking for the latest updates for your computer...
Perhaps that's what you meant by "after I'd scanned my computer"?
Hmm... Ok. So now I have a left frame which contains some links
within the labels that you have given. Hovering my mouse over
the High Priority (1) label shows a tooltip containing:
"See all critical and security-related updates your computer needs"
(In fact rather than transcribe that detail, I right-clicked View Source and found
the following line (in toc[1] - Notepad; Line 25, Column 17):
var L_Toc_CriticalUpdatesAlt_Text = "See all critical and security-related updates your computer needs";
)
and the Status bar (somehow) displays the link you are complaining about.
Now to figure out where that button is in the source I'll try doing a find with
the variable label associated with its text:
var L_Toc_Critical_Text = "High Priority";
(E.g. as found at line 21, column 18)
Hmm... L_Toc_Critical_Text not found?
Where the actual list of types and their buttons would go I see only:
<div id="eAvailableUpdatesDiv" ></div>
(Line 52, Column 37)
No other instance of that division id (eAvailableUpdatesDiv) is present
in the toc[1] source...
Script Debugger is no help...
So let's use the TIF Viewer (Alt-T,O,Alt-S,V) and find out what else is being
loaded (and cached) by this page...
See toc.css That looks promising. At least may be related to the frame
whose source I'm looking at. Drag that to an open Notepad window for
inspection... Hmm... eAvailableUpdatesDiv is in there but not very useful...
Back in the TIF Viewer. See another toc.js?... Drag that open instead.
Ugh. That looks too complicated. I wonder if I can drag it to the script
debugger? Yes! Can I set a breakpoint somewhere in there too? No...
Oh well, <serendipity!> at least I can use the script debugger instead of
Notepad for keeping track of source files... </serendipity!> ; )
(Cheating with FiddlerTool.) Aha. Some of the source apparently isn't
cached (due to Vary: * I suppose.)
Hmm... (Now what?) Let's try one of those buttons. What happens?
<fiddler>
POST /microsoftupdate/v6/resultslist.aspx?ln=en-us&id=0&LinkId=critical&TocIndex= HTTP/1.1
</fiddler>
Aha. Only the center frame is updated with
<URL extractedby="right-click Properties">
http://update.microsoft.com/microsof...ical&TocIndex=
</URL>
BTW nothing changes in the Address bar.
FWIW I just tried opening that frame in its own window
and it worked (sort of) but was not functional. The only essential difference
that I could see between the request for it using the POST versus the GET
was that the proper one had a Referer: header
<fiddler>
Referer:
http://update.microsoft.com/microsof....aspx?ln=en-us
</fiddler>
So, what's your problem? I suppose I could go further and figure out
which (non-cached?) source document constructs that POST command.
Oh. I think I may know now what you're trying to say.
Is the original frameset is being rendered again inside the target frame?
I'm not sure that that symptom has been definitively diagnosed yet.
Suggestions from time to time have been to make sure that you are using
a valid Language and to make sure that you are using default level
Security settings at least.
Otherwise, because of all the (non-cached) scripting I think you
may have to resort to using FiddlerTool yourself too, to diagnose
your symptom.
Good luck
Robert Aldwinckle
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>
> Thank you
>
> "WilliamL" wrote:
>
>> I'm having this problem where after I'd scanned my computer in microsoft
>> update website, It would display a list of updates available for me at the
>> right frame, at the left frame, it would display information such as "Select
>> by type","High Priority (9)","Software , Optional (12)" etc. After I'd
>> clicked on "High Priority (9)" link, It redirected me to the windows update
>> website again at the right frame. This problem applied to all the link listed
>> under "Select by type" and "Select by product" categories.
>>
>> I've taken steps like disabling firewall,popup blocker,anti phishing
>> filter,and any third party application and had no luck.
>>
>> Thank you
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