Thursday February 18th (aka JebBush.com)

ecchi · 2016-02-19, 04:23 AM

We keep getting threatened with snow, but fortunately (touch wood) it has not come this far south yet.

I've had a pain in the ass day. Been unable to access sites via the web. FTP worked fine, but attempts to use whatever protocol drives HTTP were buggered, and all sites were unreachable. With one weird exception.

If I used the Google toolbar on IE to do a search, I got through - I got a search page from Google loading on my browser with results. But if I then tried to go directly to Google by typing in that same URL in a browser window I again got a "no connection" error. Also: When I load Chrome that automatically goes to Google as a home page, and that worked, so did searches that I tried in the page that opened when Chrome opened a new tab. But if I typed google.com (or google.co.uk) into the address bar I got an "unable to connect" error.

Plenty of thoughts on what could cause a "no HTTP connection error but good FTP" but none that ALSO allow Google searches!

2016-02-19, 04:23 AM	#6
ecchi Banned Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: About to be evicted!!!! Posts: 4,082	We keep getting threatened with snow, but fortunately (touch wood) it has not come this far south yet. I've had a pain in the ass day. Been unable to access sites via the web. FTP worked fine, but attempts to use whatever protocol drives HTTP were buggered, and all sites were unreachable. With one weird exception. If I used the Google toolbar on IE to do a search, I got through - I got a search page from Google loading on my browser with results. But if I then tried to go directly to Google by typing in that same URL in a browser window I again got a "no connection" error. Also: When I load Chrome that automatically goes to Google as a home page, and that worked, so did searches that I tried in the page that opened when Chrome opened a new tab. But if I typed google.com (or google.co.uk) into the address bar I got an "unable to connect" error. Plenty of thoughts on what could cause a "no HTTP connection error but good FTP" but none that ALSO allow Google searches!