What operating system and browser version are you running, liam? I just checked on Windows XP/Internet Explorer 6 and can load astro's review just fine.
liam, Are you running a firewall? I recently upgraded from dial-up to DSL, from the free version of Zone Alarm to Zone Alarm Pro and added a router as a hardware firewall.
It appeared that the Zone Alarm upgrade caused me some problems at ADT. I wasn't seeing some avatars, some banner ads weren't appearing, etc...
Being that I trust ADT, I turned off most of the cookie control (except for "Block third party cookies" and ad blocking for ADT. All of my problems have gone away.
I got winxp with ie6. ya, run a firewall but my setup is the same version firewall as last year when i had no problems. I guess the prob is at my end. But as a sample I pulled up all of Saki's reviews of Evil Angel Movies. some come up, some don't.
12 listings ("won't" indicates that it won't come up):
Crack Her Jack 1 Belladonna's Evil Pink (Won't) Rocco: Animal Trainer 12 (Won't) Fresh Meat 8 Joey Silvera's Service Animals 13 (Won't) Weapons of Ass Destruction 2 Flesh Hunter 2 Rocco Super Moto Hard John Leslie's Dog Walker (Won't) Fashionistas, The (Won't) Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex For Women 2 (Won't) Fresh Meat 10
Sounds like your firewall software may have an issue with the URL format of the reviews, notably the extended characters (':,! and so forth). Look at the URL below...see how %2c takes the place of a comma in Ultimate Guide to Anal Sex for Women 2, The?
That's the only commonality I can see between the reviews you can't load and the reviews you can. The ones you can load don't have a special punctuation mark in the title...
Maybe you can poke around your firewall software to see if you can add an exception for adultdvdtalk.com?
I bet the problem has more to do with a redirect that's occuring in the background. If your browser is not allowing page redirects for soem reason then this will happen.
Can you post the exact URL of a review page that will not load?
That's because Ass Worship 1 and 2 are listed as "Jules Jordan's Ass Worship" and "Jules Jordan's Ass Worship 2" while the other two are simply "Ass Worship 3" and "Ass Worship 4".
Drew, as an example, Ass Worship 4 looks like this in the IE status bar: http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=4176/jules-jordan's-ass-worship.htm
But if I copy the shortcut or click through, the address bar reads: http://adultdvdtalk.com/reviews/read_review.dlt/sku=4176/jules-jordan%27s-ass-worship.htm
I think this might have something to do with the expansion of ' to %27s due to URL encoding...
The URL encoding is actually happening in the page source. IE reformats the URL in the status bar so it's more human readable.
The read review page is expecting the URL to match a particular format. If that format is not matched exactly then it HTTP 301 permanent redirects to the proper URL. It's this "page transition" that is sometimes a problem depending on the browser's configuration.
In any case it's really frustrating that these personal firewalls are such pieces of shit. Sure, they serve a purpose but now web developers not only are required to code for various browsers but also need to take into consideration all of the various "features" of the software packages out there.
When you click this link above the read review page realizes that the URL is in the old (technically invalid URL) format and redirects your browser to the equivalent new page at:
My guess is that your browser is configured to not allow page transitions. In IE 6 on Win2k this option is configurable from the Tools>Internet Options>Advanced Tab-Browsing section:Enable Page Transitions. This box should be checked.