| Subject: ERROR 404 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 7/22/2008 9:22:15 AM |
| From: "I.D. Azeez" [Email Address Protection] |
A web address I occasionally use gave me the following message a few days ago: ERROR 404 - NOT FOUND From RFC Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1 10.4.5 404 Not Found Is there anything I can do to have my access to the web address restored. It works on computers of others I know. Your advice will be appreciated. Azeez |
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| Subject: Re: ERROR 404 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 7/22/2008 5:29:51 PM |
| From: Kayman [Email Address Protection] |
On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:22:15 -0400, I.D. Azeez wrote: > A web address I occasionally use gave me the following message a few days > ago: > > ERROR 404 - NOT FOUND > From RFC Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1 10.4.5 404 Not Found > > Is there anything I can do to have my access to the web address restored. > It works on computers of others I know. > > Your advice will be appreciated. > Google: "ERROR 404" - plenty of info. |
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| Subject: Re: ERROR 404 |
| Group: microsoft.public.internetexplorer.general |
| Date: 7/28/2008 12:34:20 PM |
| From: "Robert Aldwinckle" [Email Address Protection] |
"I.D. Azeez" <p25id6@videotron.ca> wrote in message news:elVqvwQ7IHA.2212@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> If you post the URL .... > Many thanks to Daniel Crichton for his comments. The web address is that of > the cell phone company Fido, for Canada as <fido.ca>. I have used it for my > account only, for convenience. There is an address which comes up as an > alternative of the ERROR 404, but it does not refresh its account, nor any > other function. Why it is there, I wonder. I doubt that that is the URL that you are seeing but it is interesting to see that that server seems to be _very_ particular about the syntax it gets. E.g. normally we can simulate an HTTP browser connection using telnet to a site's port 80 with as little as GET / though sometimes we have to switch to GET / HTTP/1.1 plus Host: fido.ca In this case even the latter is coming back with an HTTP 500 error response: <HTML_Extract> <H3>From RFC 2068 <i>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</i>:</H3></FONT> <FONT FACE="Helvetica" SIZE="3"><H4>10.5.1 500 Internal Server Error</H4></FONT> <P><FONT FACE="Courier New">The server encountered an unexpected condition which prevented it from fulfilling the request.</FONT></P> </HTML_Extract> So this at least gives you the RFC number of the specification that the other section number that you saw will be coming from... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt (Live Search for rfc2068 ) A better tool to use both for testing and diagnosis is Fiddler2. With it we can try adding a User-Agent and whatever else the host server seems to need to simulate a successful request... Hmm... the server's not even satisfied when I replace Fiddler's User-Agent with the real IE7 User-Agent in Fiddler's Request Builder. Very unusual. Well, Fiddler shows that there are 4 other headers which could be sent to exactly simulate what IE7 would send with its request. I leave finding which ones of those aren't absolutely required by that server as "an exercise for the reader". ; ) FYI Robert Aldwinckle --- > Sincerely, Azeez > > > "Daniel Crichton" <msnews@worldofspack.com> wrote in message > news:uLj7QmN7IHA.5164@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... >> I.D. wrote on Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:22:15 -0400: >> >>> A web address I occasionally use gave me the following message a few >>> days ago: >> >>> ERROR 404 - NOT FOUND >>> From RFC Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1 10.4.5 404 Not Found >> >>> Is there anything I can do to have my access to the web address >>> restored. It works on computers of others I know. >> >>> Your advice will be appreciated. >> >>> Azeez >> >> >> This is an expected response from a server when you request a page that >> does not exist. It's possible the server admin has deleted or renamed the >> page and that's why it no longer works. >> >> The other computers may still work if they are pulling a copy of the page >> from a proxy server, and will continue to do so until the proxy deletes >> the cached page. Or it could be that your computer is actually requesting >> the page from the wrong server - which could be a DNS problem at your ISP, >> or on your computer itself (for instance if you modified the HOSTS file), >> or a misconfigured proxy server between your computer and the server. It >> might be that you've installed something on your computer that is blocking >> access to that URL. It could even be that the server administrator has >> blocked your IP address and rather than returning a 403 response (which >> would be the usual response to a forbidden request) it is returning the >> 404 response instead. It could also be that the server admin has >> misconfigured the request for everyone. >> >> If you post the URL then some of us might be able to tell you if the file >> does still exist on the server or not. Otherwise, your guess is as good >> anyone's as to what is happening. However, it's pretty much a given that >> it's not Internet Explorer that has a problem. >> >> -- >> Dan >> > |
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