ASP.NET 3.5 / IIS 6 Garbled / Corrupt Result
I inherited a web application, and trying to put it on the same server on a different IP and IIS site, I get this whole page in all browsers. (not sure how this server will output here, but it's basically the same as if you were opening the binary with a text editor or bad character encoding).
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I copied the same assembly and all its files to a site running under a different IP, used the <globalization> web.config tag and set all encodings to UTF-8, and heck, I even tried to set it to ASCII.
The app, written for users in US cities only, uses localization resource files for Russian and Romanian as they have been transferred to third-party developers. I think they did it to make it easier for developers who are perhaps less proficient in English who know.
Apart from using the same copy as in production and changing the web.config encoding settings, I found it works fine on my IIS 7 / Windows 7 workstation, tried to throw an uncompiled copy in there with .cs files and all, wrote a simple ASPX page that did response.write (worked great).
So, as you can see, I am heavily involved in the roadblock and decided to ask the wonderful professional community that we have here. Any input you can get on this subject would be much appreciated.
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I fixed it by exporting the IIS settings for the production system where it worked fine and created a new IIS site from that file. Unfortunately, I can't see the difference between the two before I did this, but if you run into this problem, then here's another thing you can add to your troubleshooting tasks list.
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This is probably a long shot based on your description, but from a little internet digging, a few forum posters mention bad network cards decomposing packets. You said you have an application on a different IP address on the server - does your server have more than 1 network adapter?
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