The worst Deployment Error Ever

The other day I got a call from someone out in the plant that they could not access our Timesheet program (written in .Net) from the Intranet. I walked out there to take a look since there were about 20 other computers that were all able to access it without any problems. I got out there and found the common deployment error dialog and clicked the more details button to get the full error and found this "Cannot handle redirect from HTTP/HTTPS protocols to other dissimilar ones." I had never seen this error before and so I searched for it on Google and found 3 links that dealt with the error but none of them were the same situation and none of them had a solution.



I ended up rebooting the machine and trying it again and everything worked fine, but I never did find any meaningful information about what the error really means or what could be causing the issue. The program works by clicking a link which goes to an ASPX page to validate that the user is inside our company and if they are it redirects to the .application file for the program. If they are not it redirects them to a page telling them they can't access the program from outside the company.



If anyone else runs across this issue, I would be interested to see if they find the cause of it or what they did to fix it.