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Old May 10th 17, 10:47 PM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
philo
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Default Windows Update Site down

On 05/10/2017 01:14 PM, Paul wrote:
philo wrote:
On 05/10/2017 02:19 AM, Andy wrote:
Has any one noticed that since about sunday 5/7/2017 the
http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
Web site is totaly down no link no any thing .
Thanks



it is not down


An attempt to reach that site with IE6 in WinXP
yields "Cannot find server".

However, if you try the same thing in Firefox, the server
switches to https and a redirect happens. Maybe not what's
desired, but the behavior is indicative.

I would say the server switches to https, and IE6 cannot
handle the certificate issues.

So if the OS this is being tested on is WinXP, you'll probably
have to switch to at least IE8 and re-test.

Windows Update only works through Internet Explorer, so it's
up to a user to do whatever is necessary to make IE work again.

Paul




But he said it was as of just a few days ago, so he probably has some
other problem.

BTW: A good work-around is Brave Browser, should be recognized as IE
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