When Content Advisor is enabled, Internet Explorer 6 may repeatedly send GET requests to the root of a Web site (924456)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0

SYMPTOMS

Consider the following scenario:

You are using Microsoft Internet Explorer 6. Content Advisor is enabled.
You visit a Web site that contains scripts, such as javascript:false scripts.

In this scenario, Internet Explorer may send a GET request to the root of this Web site every time that a script runs on this site.

CAUSE

This issue occurs if Internet Explorer does not associate the scripts on a particular Web site with any existing Content Advisor rules. In this situation, Internet Explorer sends a GET request to the root of the Web site to locate the configuration file for the rule.

WORKAROUND

To work around this issue, disable Content Advisor. To do this, follow these steps:

Click Tools, and then click Internet Options.
Click the Content tab, and then click Disable in the Content Advisor area.
In the Password box, type the supervisor password, and then click OK two times.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.Microsoft regularly releases software updates to address specific bugs. If Microsoft releases a software update to resolve this bug, this article will be updated with additional information.

Modification Type:	Major	Last Reviewed:	9/12/2006
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