[LON-CAPA-users] The Case of the Missing Gifs
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Sat, 9 Dec 2006 12:01:21 -0500
<div>I will talk to them about the firewall. On the other hand, why would i=
t work under Firefox and not IE? Seems like they would both miss the gifs i=
f the firewall is blocking the messages on 8080.<br><br>brew<br></div><font=
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To: lon-capa-users@mail.lon-capa.org<br>From: Gerd Kortemeyer <korte@lit=
e.msu.edu><br>Sent by: lon-capa-users-admin@mail.lon-capa.org<br>Date: 1=
2/08/2006 07:50PM<br>Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-users] The Case of the Missing =
Gifs<br><br><font face=3D"monospace" size=3D"3">Hi,<br><br>On Dec 8, 2006, =
at 6:25 PM, Robert=5FBrewington@er.monroe.edu wrote:<br><br>><br>> I =
am trying to track down an irritating thing happening in LonCapa.<br>><b=
r>> On the school machines, running Internet Explorer 6, the little &nbs=
p;<br>> gifs used<br>> for buttons and such do not appear. The studen=
ts see little red Xs, as<br>> though the files cannot be found.<br>><=
br>> Everything works fine on my desktop machine running Firefox, but &n=
bsp;<br>> IE6 can't<br>> find the gifs. So, it seems to be an IE issu=
e rather than something <br>> about a<br>> teacher account vers=
us a student account. I am Blessed By The Great <br>> Gods of<br>&=
gt; IT to run Firefox; it is not available for the students to run.<br>>=
<br>> On my home machine, running either IE7 or Firefox, everything seem=
s <br>> to work<br>> correctly.<br>><br>> Anyone know wha=
t setting needs to be changed or something? My IT <br>> people are=
<br>> unable to find a solution. The LonCapa system is usable like this,=
<br>> but it<br>> is kind of kludgy (and a little embarrassing=
).<br><br>Most likely, your school IT folks are filtering port 8080 with so=
me <br>firewall - they need to open up that port.<br><br>- Gerd.<br><=
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