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Q171929: Internet Explorer 3.0 SBS: Web Address Returns Error Message

Article: Q171929
Product(s): Microsoft Press
Version(s): 
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdocerr
Last Modified: 07-JAN-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- MSPRESS Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Step by Step ISBN 1-57231-300-5 
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SYMPTOMS
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In Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Step by Step, ISBN: 1-57231-300-5, page 12,
step 4, asks you to connect to the following Web site:

  http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/fnm/

Doing so will return an error similar to the following:

  HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found.

CAUSE
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The Microsoft Press Web site has changed to the following address:

  http://mspress.microsoft.com/

WORKAROUND
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Each time in the book when you see A URL with this sequence in it:

  http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/

Replace the "www" with "mspress." Thus, this address:

  http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/fnm/

should be changed to this address:

  http://mspress.microsoft.com/mspress/fnm/

STATUS
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Microsoft Press has confirmed this to be a problem in "Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3.0 Step by Step." Microsoft Press is committed to providing
informative and accurate books. If you have a later printing of this book, it
may already contain the above correction.


Additional query words: mspress ms_press press bookbug

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Keywords          : kbdocerr 
Technology        : kbMSPressSearch
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