Cannot Open, Display, find - errors

Canotofd: Non Secured sites - All others
Canotofd: Secured sites.
  • When you connect to a secure Web page, you may receive the following error message:
    IE 4: An error occurred in the secure channel support.
    IE 5: The page cannot be displayed. Cannot find server or DNS Error.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=181147

  • Err Msg: Cannot Open Internet Site Https://<Web Address>...
     Cannot open Internet site https://<Web address>. A connection to the server could not be established.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188773

  • Err Msg: Internet Explorer Cannot Open the Internet Site...
     When you attempt to connect to a Secure Web site using Internet Explorer
    IE cannot open the Internet site HTTPS://<address>. One of the library files needed to run this application cannot be found.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=188839

  • Error 403.7 or "Connection to Server Could Not Be Established"
    One of the following errors occurs when trying to browse a Web site that has Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) enabled:
    HTTP Error 403.7 Forbidden: Client certificate required. Connection to the server could not be established.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=190004

  • Unable to View Secure Web Sites Using America Online
    Cannot open Internet site https:// Web address. A connection to the server could not be established.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216592

  • Cannot Gain Access to Certain Secure Web Sites
     When you try to gain access to a secure Web site, you may receive the following error message:
    The page cannot be displayed, Cannot find server or DNS error.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=246725

  • Error Messages When You Try to Log On to a Secure Web Site if Registry Key Is Damaged or Invalid
     When you try to use Internet Explorer to log on to a secure Web site, you may receive one or both of the following error messages: Page cannot be displayed, Connection with the server was reset.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=259537

  • The Page Cannot Be Displayed... Cannot Find Server or DNS Error
     http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=265847

  • "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" Error Message When You Try to View Web Page on a Secure Web Site
     If you try to browse secure Web sites, you may receive the following message in the browser window: The page cannot be displayed.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=303807

  • Page Cannot Be Displayed Error During SSL 3.0 Server Session Timeout
     http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305217 When Internet Explorer version 5.5 Service Pack 1 or later tries to POST data, GET data or set up an HTTPS connection with the connect command, Internet Explorer generates an error message that indicates that the page could not be displayed.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=305217

  • Internet Explorer Is Unable to Open Office Documents from an SSL Web Site
     When you attempt to open or download a Microsoft Office document (.doc file, .xls file, .ppt file, and so on) from a secure Web site in Internet Explorer, you may receive one of the following error messages:
    Internet Explorer cannot download file from server.
    Internet Explorer was not able to open this Internet site. The requested site is either unavailable or cannot be found. Please try again later. The page cannot be displayed.
    The page you are looking for is currently unavailable. The Web site might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your browser settings. Cannot find server or DNS Error
    Office Application Name cannot open the file.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=316431

  • Cannot Connect to Web Sites That Require SSL 3.0
     When you use Internet Explorer on the operating systems listed at the beginning of this article, you cannot connect to some Web sites. For example, if you try to connect to https://www.microsoft.com, you may receive the following error message:
    Page cannot be displayed The bottom of the error page may display "Cannot find server or DNS error."
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=318815

  • NTLM Authentication Over an SSL Connection Does Not Work in Internet Explorer 6
     When you try to use I. E. to connect to a secure Web site over Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), authentication to that site may not work, and your client computer may not be able to connect to the site.
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=325662

  • "The Page Cannot Be Displayed" Error Message Occurs When You Try to Access an FTP Site
     When you use IE to connect to a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site that requires authentication, you may not be able to connect to the site and you may receive the following error message: The page cannot be displayed
    http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=328785

  • Problems accessing secure sites
     An additional link to help in solving your problem.
    http://www.mvps.org/inetexplorer/answers2.htm#secure_sites

Canotofd: Additional information.
  • Problem: Cannot find server or DNS Error Internet Explorer
    When I hit refresh it works fine. Even with my designated HOME page.
    My Specs., Windows 2000 Pro., IE 6.0.2600, DSL, Southwestern bell

    Solution:
    We have been using a LAN connection for over a year and I just updated everyone to IE 6. For some reason a lot of users were getting the "The page cannot be displayed" error every time they opened IE instead of a home page but were able to proceed with no problem after the first refresh.

    I turns out that the "Autodial" setting in the registry was being set to "true" even though they do not even have dialup adapters installed.

    Instead of me giving the paths to the registry settings, open REGEDIT and search for "EnableAutodial" and each place that has the value as "1" or "01 00 00 00" change it to "0" or "00 00 00 00".

    If you are using a dialup then this is not for you.

    Source: Wilson Bradley

  • Problem by W. Travis Peters
    I seem to have lost my ability to go to secure sites. I use Windows ME.

    Solution was:
    Well, I found my answer! MTU needed to be set to 1362. No documentation was found, just help from another tech.

  • Problem by "Judy"
Just wanted to share this, as I've seen several others who were having a similar problem, 
where IE could/would not load any sites, and where "This Window Cannot
 Be Displayed" was the only response.
    
Solution:
I spent 3 days without IE, and wasted several hours of my server's Tech's time, because of
"ADD-SUBTRACT" - SOMEHOW it ("Add-Subtract"... anti-pop-up program) had added itself
as a "Proxy Server" or something like that. (I found the entry in the Control Panel, and 
I couldn't tell you WHERE now...) Once that was gone,  I had IE back. So apparently.... 
Ad-Subtract (although I DO like the way it stops pop-ups) is one of those programs that 
infiltrates our machines and makes its own settings.....hmmmmm.....

    


    

  • Problem by "Unknown"
When on the internet, I contantly get a "Page cannot be displayed" error message
when attempting to access different site (even my internet provider home page).  
After several attempts (and error pages), I can eventually get to the site I am trying 
to access. I have cable internet connection, Windows ME and Internet Explorer V6.  
I'm guessing that some of my setting are incorrect.  Any suggestions?  (It is actually
taking multiple attempts for  me to post this because of this error!)

Solution:
Basically the problem started happening after I installed Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 
Express Install.

My web connection slowed to a crawl and most web pages wouldn't even come up. 
It wasn't a problem with parasite programs, or a virus.  

The technician said that other people have had the same problem who use Comcast and
recently ran an update program from Comcast. He suspects that the Comcast program I 
ran set a certain registry value to an invalid value, and that the new Service pack doesn't 
know how to use the value, resulting in TCP/IP packets being used that are either extremely 
small or extremely large. That slows the web response to almost nothing.  
We don't know for sure that it's the Comcast program that caused it, 
but it's a good possibility.

Anyway, the solution is as follows:

(1) Click Start, choose Run, and type "regedit" and click OK.
(2) In the registry editor, expand the node called >HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
(3) Expand the submode named SYSTEM
(4) Expand the submode named CurrentControlSet
(5) Expand the submode named  Services
(6) Find the node called TCPIP and expand it
(7) Under that, click on the node called Parameters
(8) On the right side, find the variable named TCPWindowSize
(9) If the type of the variable is not REG_DWORD (mine was >REG_SZ) and the value is not
0x0000ea60(60000) then you may have found the problem. To fix it:
(10) Select the TCPWindowSize variable and delete it.
(11) Right-click on Paramters again and choose New DWORD value
(12) Name the new variable TCPWindowSize
(13) Set the value of the new variable to ea60
(14) Close the registry editor and reboot.

When I did that my web pages began to load fast like they used to.

Hope this helps all the people with the same problem.

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