Re: Hesitate to write this: can't get at postgres.org

From: "Nigel J(dot) Andrews" <nandrews(at)investsystems(dot)co(dot)uk>
To: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hesitate to write this: can't get at postgres.org
Date: 2003-09-29 00:12:51
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.21.0309290111240.31021-100000@ponder.fairway2k.co.uk
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On Sun, 28 Sep 2003, Christopher Browne wrote:

> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw when bill-bell(at)bill-bell(dot)hamilton(dot)on(dot)ca (Bill Bell) would write:
> > When I request
> >
> > http://www.postgresql.org
> >
> > all I get is a light grey line on a dark grey background and the HTML
> > is correspondingly "uninformative".
> >
> > Tried looking a couple of days ago, thought it must just be some
> > transient problem.
> >
> > Anybody know?
>
> That doesn't seem consistent with what I see.
>
> This report would be a lot more useful if you indicated additional
> detail such as:
> - At what time you tried accessing the site;
> - What browser you were using;
> - What your browser actually downloaded.

Snap.

> If I hit the site with Lynx, I don't get any colour at all, for
> instance, but I do get reasonably "informative" HTML back.

Snap. I just hit the link above in pine, it fired up lynx and in the blink of
an eye I've got what looks like the homepage formated in a text browser.

--
Nigel J. Andrews

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