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Old May 11th 17, 07:27 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-8
Andy
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Default Windows Update Site down

You are right it does redirect to the windows update FAQ pages and first
thing in youre face is winows 10 how to get it
Looks like microsoft has pulled the update site down to force XP users to
upgrade as if the machine needs a rebuild unless you have all the updates
saved you are out of luck.


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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



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