It was a proxy settings problem. All fixed now. Sorry to disturb the list.
Murray Jorgensen
arinbasu at softhome.net wrote:
> Hi Murray:
> Perhaps the errors are thrown by Mozilla because it encounters an
> encrypted/secure page and does not know what to do (..:)..)? Would it
> help if you went to Edit > Preferences... > Privacy and Security >
> select SSL or Certificates drop down list
> and then once in SSL, or once in Certificates tab, make the necessary
> changes so that Mozilla can at least show you the certificates which you
> can then accept or reject before proceeding.
> And indeed, why are mail archives on secure pages?
> HTH,
> Arin
>
>
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:32:48 +1200
>> From: Murray Jorgensen <maj at stats.waikato.ac.nz>
>> Subject: Re: [R] Modalwert
>> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>> Message-ID: <409EA380.2040507 at stats.waikato.ac.nz>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
>> Off-topic, I know, but when I try to follow secure links like this in
>> Mozilla, I always get a message "The connection was refused when
>> trying to contact www.stat.math.ethz.ch" and I am forced to use
>> Internet Explorer instead. This is under Windows XP.
>> Is this because www.stat.math.ethz.ch is using some non-standard
>> Microsoft extensions of html? Or is it because my Mozilla 1.6 browser
>> is wrongly configured?
>> Why are the mail archives on secure pages anyway?
>> Murray Jorgensen
>
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