Always Get Better

Today I learned that Internet Explorer limits the site of GET requests to 2,083 characters.  Any URL longer than this cannot be used by the web browser.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/208427

I can’t help but wonder where that number comes from?  The closest power is 11 (2^11=2048), which doesn’t correspond at all to this limit.  Is it arbitrary?  Other web browsers (Firefox, Safari) do not have this limitation.

By default, windows 2003 Server is locked down and won’t display ASP.NET pages.

To enable them you must set its status to Allowed within the Web Service Extensions of IIS.

In order to change my password on a remote Windows 2003 server, I recently needed to send a Ctrl+Alt+Del sequence to the host. By default, doing this sends that sequence to your own machine.

To send the command to the hosting server, type Ctrl+Alt+End.

I noticed lately that I’ve been having issues accessing my GMail account.  These issues have come and gone in the past but in the last several days it’s turned into an occurrence every time I log into my account.

For anyone else sharing in this problem, here is my solution:

1. Try clearing the URL (e.g. if your address bar reads http://mail.google.com/mail/#, change it to simply http://mail.google.com).  Sometimes this will “trick” your browser into re-loading the page.
2. Go into your Internet Options and clear your browser’s cache.  On Firefox this works nearly 100% of the time; for Internet Explorer continue to step 3.
3. Close all running copies of your web browser (after clearing the cache) and then re-load and log in again.  This is normally my last step and hasn’t failed yet.