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Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software!
From: <mattmurphy () kc rr com>
Date: 13 Jun 2002 22:20:24 -0000
In-Reply-To: <054c01c212eb$7468b970$3701a8c0@stingray>
Benjamin, Check the conditions pivx lists here: http://www.pivx.com/workaround_fail.html to make sure its being executed as we did. This has been reported by over 100 users, and duplicated by PivX lab monekys on Window2k 95 and 98. thanks, -geoff
Might I suggest that this is a misconfiguration by the folks at PivX? IE 6, and WMP 7.1, on a WinMe box has no problem with it. There is an option to set a DEFAULT proxy. This would cause the behavior you described, as would simply enabling the proxies, and setting a Gopher proxy (the HTTP/FTP fields are automatically filled in with bogus addresses when proxies are first enabled). It appears as though your find is your own error, rather than any problem with the workaround. It is interesting, though, MS appears to have simply ripped off the Online Solutions workaround that's been floating around for a few weeks.
Current thread:
- Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Geoff Shively (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Deus, Attonbitus (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Geoff Shively (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Gavin Hanover (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Benjamin Bodenheim (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Geoff Shively (Jun 13)
- <Possible follow-ups>
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! mattmurphy (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Geoff Shively (Jun 15)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! mattmurphy (Jun 13)
- Re: Microsoft releases critical fix that breaks their own software! Deus, Attonbitus (Jun 13)