IE4 connection reset error

Hello!

I've been encountering a strange error with IE 4.0.  When I, or someone
else, goes to my homepage with IE 4.0.  They get a strange response:

<ERROR MESSAGE>

Internet explorer could not open the site
http://www.agricola.umn.edu/people/smai/

The connection with the server was reset.

</ERROR MESSAGE>

Or else:

<ERROR MESSAGE>

Internet explorer could not open the site
http://www.agricola.umn.edu/people/smai/

Could not complete the transaction due to error 800c0008.

</ERROR MESSAGE>

(Of course, my <ERROR MESSAGE> tags are not present in the error; I just
did that to distinguish my error message from the rest of my post)

The front page was simply a client-pull page with a <meta refresh> that
sent the user one level down to the content page.  This error ALWAYS
occurred when visiting this particular page.  I would then get around it by
typing the direct URL.  But sometimes, while going through other pages on
my site, that same error message would pop up, even after a page had been
loaded.

I have found postings on the web that referred to this problem but, alas,
they were written in German, which I do not understand.  I know from this
fact , however, that others have encountered this problem.

This does not happen with IE3, NN2, 3, or 4, so I am assuming that it is a
bug in IE4 and that it is a client-side problem, not server-side.

Has anyone seen this before?

Thanks,
--Steve



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Stephen F. Mai
University of Minnesota Department of Rhetoric
MS Program in Scientific and Technical Communication
smai(at)mail.agricola.umn.edu
http:/www.agricola.umn.edu/people/smai/
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