8th March 2001

Sitting behind someone else's proxy is not always fun. Sure, certain pages get cached, but some... get caught in that cache. Before I lose you in terminology, this tip is intended to help those of you who seem to be having problems connecting to certain Web sites and not others. Lockergnomie Paul Reeder was running into a virtual wall when it came to WWW.LOCKERGNOME.COM. I couldn't figure out why at first; I'm not a network genius like Furo. Taking a stab in the dark, I suggested that he try loading LOCKERGNOME.COM (sans the WWW prefix). Well, that worked. "Why would that be!?" From my understanding, if your connection service has stored (cached) data from a certain site, that data may be old or corrupt. Most people are trained to go to WWW dot anything dot COM. Most likely, you never visit a site without appending those doppelgangers. Since LOCKERGNOME.COM (sans WWW) was not previously cached by Paul's ISP, he was immediately transferred to it (LOCKERGNOME.COM). Still with me, folks? Give it a shot for those sites that seem to stick.