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Mark Silverman

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Jun 18, 2008, 11:54:04 PM6/18/08
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The error message I get is: Connection closed by remote server.

Thanks,

Mark


Rijk van Geijtenbeek

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Jun 19, 2008, 6:31:31 AM6/19/08
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Op Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:54:04 +0200 schreef Mark Silverman
<mar...@gmail.com>:

> The error message I get is: Connection closed by remote server.

Check your firewall or proxy software, most likely such programs are
blocking Opera.

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Rijk van Geijtenbeek
Opera Software ASA, Documentation & QA
Tweak: http://my.opera.com/Rijk/blog/

"The most common way to get usability wrong is to listen to what users
say rather than actually watching what they do." - J.Nielsen

Mark Silverman

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Jun 19, 2008, 7:16:52 PM6/19/08
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This dosn't seem to be the issue. At the same time, I can go online with
firefox and IE, but with other programs I get a message that they can't
detect the internet.

Thanks,

Mark

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Charles W

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Jun 27, 2008, 3:35:51 PM6/27/08
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For those of you who don't know, the HOSTS file on Windows can be used to
point website domains at IP Addresses of your choosing. For most of our
websites, when we're developing, we use the HOSTS file to point websites to
127.0.0.1 which is the address representing your local machine. Opera 9.50
has a new 'security feature' which effectively blocks navigation to
domains/addresses pointed to 127.0.0.1. So I suppose that I should just turn
that feature off - oh. wait. There isn't an option to do that. So ok, the
localhost ip address doesnt work. What about your local network address you
say? Oh, well that won't work either. You get a lovely 'Network not
available' message instead of a blank page.

What this means is that I cannot effectively debug our websites for Opera
using the latest version. What this means for our users who use Opera is
that we cannot make sure that their experience is accurate. I have no choice
at this point but to downgrade to Opera 9.27 for testing our websites.
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