Never mind. I tracked it down:
In XP SP2 Microsoft copied the HTML resources for the IE error pages to
xpsp2res.dll (and seemingly orphaned the resources in shdoclc.dll).
Modifying xpsp2res.dll did the trick.
I really wish there were a cleaner way to do this...but at least with this
hack IE can now be used in an unattended kiosk environment.
Sincerely,
David Rueter
drueter[ at ]assyst.com
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[Quoted Text] >I want to use Internet Explorer 6 in an unattended kiosk (no keyboard,
>touch screen only).
>
> Should IE loose a connection to the web server, I want it to be able to
> retry automatically.
>
> I created a custom error page to replace the standard DNSERROR.HTM in
> shdoclc.dll, and updated shdoclc.dll with this new page. This page
> provides a Reload button, as well as uses a timer to reload the target URL
> every few seconds.
>
> Everything works great in Win2K and XP prior to SP2. However, with IE 6
> post-SP2 IE insists on loading the error page from some other location
> (i.e. does not use DNSERROR.HTM in shdoclc.dll)--resulting in the standard
> "The page cannot be displayed" message.
>
> I did a clean install of XP in VirtualPC, and carefully applied hotfixes,
> SP1, more hot fixes, then SP2 testing after each update to IE. I am quite
> certain that all versions of IE6 on XP prior to SP2 work fine (meaning
> that they use the DNSERROR.HTM from shdoclc.dll as expected.)
>
> Note that the version of IE 6 that is not working on XP SP2 is reported as
> 6.0.2900.2180.xpsp_sp2_gdr.050301-1519. Versions of IE6 up through
> KB918899 (that updated shdoclc.dll to 6.00.2900.2180) work fine.
>
> Could somebody either 1) give me some clues on where IE 6 post-SP2 looks
> for the error message page, and/or 2) provide a suggestion on how to have
> IE gracefully recover from connection problems in an unattended kiosk
> environment?
>
> David Rueter
> drueter[ at ]assyst.com
>
>
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