Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"
Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears to be OK. What's more if I delete the last element NetSurf does resolve the host name and gives me an expected 404 error. -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"
Richard Porter, on 6 Nov, wrote: > Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for > example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx > > gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears > to be OK. What's more if I delete the last element NetSurf does resolve > the host name and gives me an expected 404 error. That URL does not go too well on Safari, or Firefox, on a Mac. "We can?t connect to the server at communities.natwest.com." This works :- https://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/results.ashx -- David Pitt
Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"
On 06/11/2018, Richard Porter wrote: > Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, > for example: > http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx > > gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears > to be OK. What's more if I delete the last element NetSurf does resolve > the host name and gives me an expected 404 error. > > -- > Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ > t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com > I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works. > > I do not know where you are, or, wherever you are, the quality of your Internet connection, but, here in Australia, after the feral government imposed the No Bl***y Network on us, Internet connections have become erratic and intermittent, leading to lots of such errors, which, upon retrying, oft disappear, when the connection is (however briefly) restored. However, I have just tried to visit that particular URL, and, got errors, and, changes/redirections, as I progressively went up levels, to the base URL. It could be either a shonky web site (I am well aware of what the URL belongs to, but, that does not mean that they are capable of, or, willing to, present a decent web site), or, it can be an issue with the "https:", which causes different problems with different browsers, or, both. -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992
Re: Spurious "Couldn't resolve hostname"
On 6 Nov 2018 David Pitt wrote: > Richard Porter, on 6 Nov, wrote: >> Anyone else getting this? I've had it from one or two addresses, for >> example: http://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/ideas-bank.ashx >> >> gives me the error "Couldn't resolve hostname" yet the host name appears >> to be OK. What's more if I delete the last element NetSurf does resolve >> the host name and gives me an expected 404 error. > That URL does not go too well on Safari, or Firefox, on a Mac. > "We can?t connect to the server at communities.natwest.com." > This works :- > https://www.natwest.com/global/customer-charter/g1/results.ashx Thanks. That's useful. I'll have a whinge at NatWest. Richard -- Richard Porter http://www.minijem.plus.com/ t: @westernexplorer mailto:r...@minijem.plus.com I don't want a "user experience" - I just want stuff that works.
