> You can play with telnet to see what they will and won't accept: > > telnet 207.68.171.253 80 I've just done this, and msn.com's returning something VERY interesting. Look at this: aardvarko at files:~$ telnet msn.com 80 Trying 207.68.172.246... Connected to msn.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.msn.com Connection: close User-Agent: Microsoft blows goats HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:39:44 GMT P3P:CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo" Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Cache-control: private Content-Length: 903 <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> Test Page </TITLE> </HEAD> <CENTER> <b> <i> Master Test Page <p> This page is monitored heavily. Test all changes!!! </i> </b> </CENTER> <P> <A HREF= "http://ads.msn.com/ads/installationtestpage.htm"> MSN Ad Rotator Test Page </A> <P> <A HREF= "http://ads.msn.com/-pgexpires"> Ad Expiration Filter Dignostics Page </A> <P> <A HREF= "http://www.msn.com/msnsmoke/ads-test/test.asp"> Ad Rotator Installation Test Page </A> <P> <A HREF= "http://www.msn.com/msnsmoke/piglet/checkip.asp"> msn.com URL generation page </A> <P> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/ra/default.htm" > Real Audio Servers Test Page </A> <p> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/ns/default.htm" > NetShow Servers Test Page </A> <p> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/denali/propdb/test_prop.asp" > User Props Test Page (Denali / NT 4.0 only) </A> <p> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/denali/MWSmokeTest.asp" > Denali "test it all" page </A> </HTML> Connection closed by foreign host. aardvarko at files:~$ None of those pages appear to exist anymore. Interesting... "Test all changes!!!" Heh, that's a new one for Microsoft. -- -aardvarko http://aardvarko.com webmaster at aardvarko dot com > -----Original Message----- > From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org > [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Paulsen > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:18 > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Need IE to view msn.com?