Re: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage?

No problem getting to http://imdb.com on a DSL connection via either
Linux or Win95.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Petri Laihonen <pietu@weblizards.net>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Friday, July 30, 2004 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] cox new orleans outage?
>>> However, I can not get to http://imdb.com from my linux box. All
m$
>>> browsers go there with no problems. I even installed the latest
mozilla,
>>> and no help. Imdb.com does not even respond to ping sent from
linux.
>> On a slightly related note, I ran into a nasty problem today. It
seems a
>> Baton
>> Rouge company that does web-based medical stuff for my client does
a
>> browser
>> detect and unless you're hitting the site with IE, all of the
relative
>> links
>> are padded with leading backslashes. Needless to say, my 3-week-old
>> campaign
>> to switch that entire office to mozilla just came to a screeching
halt.
>> I didn't find a place in mozilla to change the user agent string. I
might
>> be
>> able to put everyone behind a proxy that mangles the string, but
I'm
>> concerned that forcing everyone to surf through a proxy might break
things
>> here and there.
>With opera you can change the agent string.
>The latest version of opera seems to be working fine with the pages
>version < 7.5 did not. It is also quite nice tool for developing and
>troubleshooting WAP pages.
>P
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