400 Bad Request

[Scott]

I need a little insight on this one as I am in a rut on
this.

Everytime when I send an e-mail out of my YAHOO account,
an error message comes up and it states:

"Your browser sent a request that this server could not
understand."
"The request line contained invalid characters following
the protocol string."

I have contacted YAHOO on this issue and they stated that
they think it may be a setting off on my web browser. I
went and view all the settings on the web browser and
will continue to do so. But I need to find out if anyone
had this problem before and if so, if there is a fix.
Any assistance is accepted and greatly appreciated.

Scott

 

[Charlie Tame]

Scott I think Yahoo mail uses Java (the virtual machine not the
Javascripting language) and maybe there's a problem with that.

You can try the Sun version from www.java.sun.com (download for the VM is on
the right of the page) and it should run happily alongside the Microsoft
version without causing you any trouble, however make sure the download is
suitable for your operating system because you didn't say which one you
have. Get this utility too, very safe and simple to swap from Sun Java to MS
Java... that will tell you if the MS virtual machine is causing it.
http://pages.istar.ca/~neutron/SelectIEJVM/


I am not sure of this so please wait for other opinions in case someone has
a definite answer, and if nothing appears in a reasonable time please post
back with your operating system version and details of anything that you did
around the time this trouble started. That will help someone to help you.

Please post back if this fixes it or helps, that also will help me and
others...

Charlie

 

[Scott Schwalbe]

Charlie

I will look into that in detail. I am using Microsoft XP
and internet explorer 6. I also have outlook express that
i am using through my internet service provider and I am
not having any problems sending messages through that.
Thanks for the help and if I found out anything, I will
post a new message to this newsgroup to let you know if
that was the fix or something else was done.

Scott

 

[Scott]

Charlie.

I am going to put out a new post on this, but I solve the
problem. I had about 40 window updates that I had to
download and install from the Microsoft website (as well
as download and install SP1 for XP. but overall, it is
working. thanks for the help.

Scott