Need help diagnosing a small problem on my site

[jonroussel]

I FIXED IT!!!!! Used a program called fiddler and found out that is was not cached, changed the setting and now it works in ie!!!

[jonroussel]

now the funny thing is that even after I deleted temporary files that didn't do it. I used fiddler to prepare a request to my site, and selected "revisit in ie" and now it shows up. Wow, that was quite an ordeal, so now I wonder if I have any other problems!

So is that a server thing that you are referencing or server side?

BTW, what content-type / MIME type is your ICO files set to?

[jonroussel]

if you mean under http headers - file types:
image/x-icon

just tried it on 2 other computers in the building and the icon showed up! But for our computer at the front of the store it still stays on (1 item remaining) and no icon. Man IE is really finicky, you would think Microsoft would have figured it out by now

The problem is - it's a big company. Communication lacks in such a large organization. I just thought it was IE 6 and the temporary cache issue actually - that's why I never thought about the cache (and since it was happening on two systems as well).

Originally Posted by TomLapp

if you mean under http headers - file types:
image/x-icon

yes, that is what I was asking. but since you were also telling the browser to display it as an image, that should help it.

From doing some research, it seems that the type should be set to image/vnd.microsoft.icon and both should be used

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon"> 
<link rel="icon" href="favicon.ico" type="image/vnd.microsoft.icon">

[jonroussel]

it's working now so should I still change the type to image/vnd.microsoft.icon or just leave it as is?

Well if you have it as image/x-icon in your source code, it should be displayed as such and the http is just the default (if none is chosen).

Using the image/vnd.microsoft.icon seems to be the 'new' content-type - browsers are OK with both it seems right now

[jonroussel]

I have discovered another reason why my site is moving slow, my viewstate! I used a viewstate decoder and it is huge. I'm going to get on that and greatly reduce it because honestly, the way I designed my site there's not a lot of need for such a huge viewstate. The only thing that needs to be remembered is the user's shopping cart which, the shopping cart is actually held in an sql database and is referenced by the users anonymous profile id. Either than that there's not much need. I could not believe how huge the viewstate was, it's almost like a book!

[jonroussel]

I hate being right all the time but months ago I told my boss this site was not ready for deployment but they made me rush it on there anywhere. I have to go to each page and disable viewstate for every label, button, datasource, grid, you name it before this thing will stop crawling

[jonroussel]

I just spoke to a friend of ours that works for a hosting company, they did some speed tests and actually told us that our internet speed is fast enough to host. But they said our server is too slow. So we have decided to wipe our server 2003 system and reinstall the os (since it is full of problems). Our store doesnt need a domain controller, the only thing we do on our systems is look at a simple excel spreadsheet. So today i'm wiping it and moving it to the Server 2003 system and these guys are saying that will fix our problem