400 Bad Syntax Error

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Help! I try to go to a particular website and get the
following error message: "400 Bad Syntax
The request appears to be improperly formatted.
Found error in this section of the request: GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg,
image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword,
application/x-shockwave-flash, */* Accept-Language: en-us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~ User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
(compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Host:
www.okcmarathon.com Connection: Keep-Alive"
This is the only webiste I get this message.
(www.okcmarathon.com) I've had other people go to it with
no problems. I'm running Windows XP Home Ed. I.E. 6.0
 
Under Tools/Internet Options/Advance tab/
Security section is "Use TLS 1" checked?

It may not need to be.

On my computer only SSL 2 and 3 are set.
 
Accept-Language: en-us
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: ~~~~~ ~~~~~~~
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
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I think that the line of tildes is likely to be the cause of your symptom.
When I go there I see instead:
<example>
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
</example>

Do you have any third-party programs which might be messing
with that area, e.g. something that might be trying to add its own
compression method and corrupting the rest in the process?

Hmm... another possibility might be something which wanted
to make sure that compression was not going to be used
(e.g., in order to be able to scan or filter out stuff without
having to do its own decompression)

It certainly wouldn't hurt to assume that this could be caused by malware
and do all the necessary scans and tests in preparation for removing
such annoyances.


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
 
Thanks for helping Robert! I JUST HAPPENED to think after
reading your post if disabling my antivirus program would
work and......what do ya know.....got the site with NO
problem.....then enabled it and got the error message
again..guess it's blocking it for some apparent reason,
but never get a message from it. thanks very much!
Gina
 
Thanks for helping Robert! I JUST HAPPENED to think after
reading your post if disabling my antivirus program would
work and......what do ya know.....got the site with NO
problem.....then enabled it and got the error message
again..guess it's blocking it for some apparent reason,
but never get a message from it. thanks very much!
Gina
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Good work, Gina.

It might help if you posted the name of the antivirus program
in case somebody knows something more about this issue.

FWIW I just did a Google search with
antivirus ( disable OR disables OR disabling OR disabled ) "accept-encoding"
and could only find a firewall product called Outpost
which admitted to using this technique.


Robert
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