> You can play with telnet to see what they will and won't accept:
>
> telnet 207.68.171.253 80

I've just done this, and msn.com's returning something VERY interesting.
Look at this:

aardvarko at files:~$ telnet msn.com 80
Trying 207.68.172.246...
Connected to msn.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.msn.com
Connection: close
User-Agent: Microsoft blows goats

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 21:39:44 GMT
P3P:CP="BUS CUR CONo FIN IVDo ONL OUR PHY SAMo TELo"
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Cache-control: private
Content-Length: 903

<HTML>
<HEAD> <TITLE> Test Page </TITLE> </HEAD>

<CENTER> <b> <i> Master Test Page <p>
This page is monitored heavily. Test all changes!!! </i> </b> </CENTER>


<P> <A HREF= "http://ads.msn.com/ads/installationtestpage.htm"> MSN Ad
Rotator Test Page </A>
<P> <A HREF= "http://ads.msn.com/-pgexpires"> Ad Expiration Filter
Dignostics Page </A>
<P> <A HREF= "http://www.msn.com/msnsmoke/ads-test/test.asp"> Ad Rotator
Installation Test Page </A>
<P> <A HREF= "http://www.msn.com/msnsmoke/piglet/checkip.asp"> msn.com URL
generation page </A>
<P> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/ra/default.htm" > Real Audio Servers Test Page </A>
<p> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/ns/default.htm" > NetShow Servers Test Page </A>
<p> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/denali/propdb/test_prop.asp" > User Props Test Page
(Denali / NT 4.0 only) </A>
<p> <A HREF = "/msnsmoke/denali/MWSmokeTest.asp" > Denali "test it all" page
</A>
</HTML>
Connection closed by foreign host.
aardvarko at files:~$


None of those pages appear to exist anymore.

Interesting...

"Test all changes!!!" Heh, that's a new one for Microsoft.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org
> [mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mike Paulsen
> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:18
> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org
> Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Need IE to view msn.com?