Can not display this page - here's another one

Yosuke Arai cbq59080 at pop06.odn.ne.jp
Tue Aug 5 05:46:01 PDT 2003


Thank you, Scott!

This way I can view the website without any problem.

Regards,

Yosuke Arai


On Mon, 4 Aug 2003 11:11:42 -0700, Scott M wrote:
> 
> Yosuke,
> 
> 
> The problem here is a buggy or misconfigured web server.
> 
> OmniWeb sends a completely valid Accept-Languages HTTP header to the 
> web server (to communicate your language preferences) that includes a 
> fallback range indicated by an asterisk "*" and then the web server 
> responds with a 404 (Document not found).
> 
> This is a known issue with some misconfigured IIS servers, as well as 
> Netscape Enterprise servers (which this site is running).  Also, 
> FileMaker web servers will respond with 'Bad Request' if they receive 
> the header with the fallback character.
> 
> 
> To work around this, we added preferences to control the 
> Accept-Languages header to the Display preferences.  Uncheck 'Fall 
> back to any language available' and the page will load as you would 
> expect.
> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> 
> Scott M.
> The Omni Group
> 
> 
> On Monday, August 4, 2003, at 05:41  AM, Yosuke Arai wrote:
> 
>> Hi there,
>> 
>> Can anyone view the following website under OW?
>> http://www.screen.co.jp/
>> (Japanese page; for English, click the "English" in the middle frame.)
>> In my configurations under OW (both 4.5rc1 and 4.2.1), only "Not found"
>> messages are displayed, whereas other browsers (IE, Mozilla, iCab and
>> Safari) can display the page without any problem.
>> I tried to disguise the app name to IE, Netscape, or Safari, turned the
>> privacy filtering off, but OW won't display the page.
>> Do you have any idea on this?
>> 
>> I'm using iMac TFT Combo 700MHz, 768MB RAM.
>> 
>> FYI - this is the website of the manufacturer of the Japanese
>> "Hiragino" font family for Mac OS X.
>> 
>> Yosuke Arai
> 



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