8th June 2001
Sometimes when you try to logon to a site, or even register using their neat little sign up form in order to obtain a user Id and password, things just don't go right. Your browser may hang, or you may receive cryptic errors back that don't really lead to a proper solution. This can often be caused by a difference in the HTTP protocol being used to communicate between your browser and the web server. Having a proxy server in the mix somewhere along the line spells trouble once in a while as well. Microsoft Internet Explorer permits you to define settings that affect how the browser uses the HTTP1.1 standard. Click Tools - Internet Options - Advanced tab and locate the HTTP 1.1 settings area. Altering how these are set can allow a problematic website to work properly. If you're running without a proxy server, then be sure that the "Use HTTP 1.1 through proxy connections" is not checked for starters. Also try disabling HTTP 1.1 entirely by clearing the "Use HTTP 1.1" checkbox. Conversely, if they are both disabled, try enabling one or the other to see if it has an affect on the issue. Confusing, to be sure, but there aren't any hard and fast rules about this one.