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Friday, February 06, 2004

Mozilla and Opera disabled

Oh, that's nice -- Mozilla and Opera cannot connect to anything and even a .NET HttpWebRequest fails; IE works on http connections, but not https. But, I can connect to secure sites from within a VMWare session!

Sigh. I've deleted my network adapter and it got automatically re-installed when I rebooted, but the problems continue.

When I run a .NET HttpWebRequest on my own domain, the exception I get is the nonsensical

Unhandled Exception: System.Net.WebException: The underlying connection was clos
ed: Unable to connect to the remote server. ---> System.Net.Sockets.SocketExcept
ion: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it
   at System.Net.ServicePoint.ConnectSocketInternal(Boolean connectFailure, Sock
et s4, Socket s6, Socket& socket, IPAddress& address, ConnectSocketState state,
IAsyncResult asyncResult, DecrementTimer timer, Exception& exception)

I have a feeling this is going to suck big time...

5:56:22 PM

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Redirects & HTTPS Capability Lost in IE -- shenanigans?

The weirdest thing has happened: Internet Explorer has lost its ability to access https and URL redirects don't work. Is this a symptom of a known worm / virus / exploit?
11:48:14 AM

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My latest article in SD Times reflects on the lack of traction for dynamic languages in .NET.
11:44:40 AM

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