System.NullReferenceException raised on site

[metalseb]

Hi folks. Just a client-side question to ask. Don't know if this is the
right place to ask for specific help. If not, sorry for the noise ;-)

Well, a friend of mine tries to access weightwatchers.fr and since a few
days, the site is unreachable at her home. She gets asp.net error
messages on her navigator telling her that there was on "object
reference not set to an instance of an object". The funny thing is that
she was able to connect last week. She is on Win2k. I made connection
tests on my side (Xp Pro SP1) and I cannot see any problem.

I'm a C++ developer and I work a bit with C# and .NET platform so I can
understand what the error message means. Although the error message is
server-side related, I can guess that there is something jerky on her
system, client side. I'm not very good at MS system managing and I need
a bit of advice about what's causing so much trouble.

If anybody could help, we would be very grateful.

Regards

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Seb

[Karl Seguin]

Email weightwatchers...the problem is with their site, not your friends
computer. However, had I to guess, I'd imagine she has a tool (norton) or
setting which blocks the UrlReferrer....and the folks at WW are doing
something like Request.UrlReferrer.ToString() when UrlReferrer is
nothing...that's ilke a 1 in a million guess though :)

Karl

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Hi folks. Just a client-side question to ask. Don't know if this is the
right place to ask for specific help. If not, sorry for the noise ;-)

Well, a friend of mine tries to access weightwatchers.fr and since a few
days, the site is unreachable at her home. She gets asp.net error
messages on her navigator telling her that there was on "object
reference not set to an instance of an object". The funny thing is that
she was able to connect last week. She is on Win2k. I made connection
tests on my side (Xp Pro SP1) and I cannot see any problem.

I'm a C++ developer and I work a bit with C# and .NET platform so I can
understand what the error message means. Although the error message is
server-side related, I can guess that there is something jerky on her
system, client side. I'm not very good at MS system managing and I need
a bit of advice about what's causing so much trouble.

If anybody could help, we would be very grateful.

Regards

--
Seb

[Patrick Olurotimi Ige]

Seb,
the error type "object
reference not set to an instance of an object"
Try posting the line of the error it would be easier to help
Elaborate
Patrick
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[metalseb]

Karl Seguin a écrit :

Email weightwatchers...the problem is with their site, not your friends
computer. However, had I to guess, I'd imagine she has a tool (norton)or
setting which blocks the UrlReferrer....and the folks at WW are doing
something like Request.UrlReferrer.ToString() when UrlReferrer is
nothing...that's ilke a 1 in a million guess though :)

Thanks Karl

Well, I think that there is some kind of firewall issue with her
machine. I will investigate this way. She phoned WW several times about
this bug and got (guess what) any answers. You know, all is running fine
on their side, so why should they investigate ?

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