[LINK] Connection Refused: what ever happened to 404?

[povey@wedgetail.com]

>And I've put up with the anti-social behaviour of expensive sensitive
>artists, like Qantas, whose Websites simply say "go away, we don't like
>Netscape 6".

This is why I love Opera. It allows you to pretend to be whatever browser 
a given web site forces on you.  Plus it has tabbed pane browsing which is 
wonderful once you get used to it (Mozilla now has this too).

>
>But lately, I'm getting a more disturbing error message: "The connection was
>refused when attempting to connect to..."
>
>The same site will work okay in IE.

If you are getting a connection refused that probably means that no HTTP
data is being passed, and therefore there is no opportunity for the server
to check the browser version.  My only guess is some proxy/firewall
weirdness as Netscape and IE have different mechanisms for doing this.

Cheers.
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