msxml post to one site works and the other fails

[alltimefav]

This in VB 6.0 with a command button works OK on the first site but fails on
the 2nd site with encoding error. I don't know how to fix this.
error on 2nd site is "System does not support the specified encoding."

Dim xml As Variant
Dim vresponse As Variant
On Error GoTo 10000
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Set xml = CreateObject("Msxml2.XmlHttp.4.0")
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xml.Open "GET", "

http://www.alltimefavorites.com",

False
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' Pull the data from the web page
xml.Send
vresponse = xml.responseText
Debug.Print "ALL OK"
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'now try another website
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xml.Open "GET", "

http://www.alltimefavorites.org",

False
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' Pull the data from the web page
xml.Send
vresponse = xml.responseText
Debug.Print "ALL OK"
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Exit Sub

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Debug.Print Error$, Str$(Err), Str$(Erl)





someone replied to me and I tried this:

There is not much you can do with responseText on that site I am afraid.
You might want to use responseBody or responseStream and try to read out
the bytes you get.


xml.responsebody gives
????????????????4?????????????????????????6?????????????????????=???????????

xml.responsestream says type mismatch

This is odd:

When looking at the server headers from alltimefavorites.org they have no
default character set

Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
Connection: Keep-Alive
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 6016
Content-Type: text/html; charset=none
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:15:37 GMT
ETag: "6ec04b-1780-2e3ab340"
Last-Modified: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:15:33 GMT
Server: Apache

and alltimefavorites.com does have a default charset

Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:23:00 GMT
Server: Apache

Could that be the issue?

 

[tsuji]

I cannot reproduce the problem by a quick script. Maybe they have since then change something?

 

[alltimefav]

Must be client machine based.
It works on some computers who have not upgraded to IE7 and applied latest security updates.

I need to contact Microsoft on this one.

I'll post the solution when I get it.

 

[alltimefav]

The issue is fixed now with an "automatic update" from yesterday for some odd reason.