can't get webpage to see its stylesheet

December 3, 2007 12:30 PM

When I go to espn.com from work, I get a page that is completely unstyled. I can't make it refresh to see its stylesheet. I've cleared cache and flushed dns. At home, it's fine.

Also, from work imdb.com always brings up a page that says "no prefetching allowed" and offers a "continue" link, which brings up the same page. The only way to get to imdb is ctrl-F5. This doesn't have any affect on espn.com. Not sure if these two experiences are related. What's going on?

posted by luser to computers & internet (5 comments total)

Your office probably uses a web proxy that is borking certain sites, this is not uncommon. There are two ways that places do this, setting a proxy server up in the browser or intercepting all web traffic and acting as a man in the middle to inspect the traffic. This is done to monitor employees internet use, cut down on bandwidth costs and increase security of the corporate wan/lan.
posted by iamabot at 12:38 PM on December 3, 2007

I had the same problem at work with a few sites. Check out your hosts file.
posted by sephira at 1:08 PM on December 3, 2007

If you're using firefox, check your extensions, like adblock, to make sure they're not being overzealous in their blocking.
posted by chrisamiller at 1:58 PM on December 3, 2007

ESPN's CSS files aren't on the same server as the main page. Are you able to see this http://assets.espn.go.com/insertfiles/css/frontpage_1119a.css?
posted by sanko at 3:24 PM on December 3, 2007

sanko -- now i'm at home, but i'll check tomorrow. Why would my company block the server with the stylesheet, but not the main page?
posted by stupidsexyFlanders at 4:13 PM on December 3, 2007