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Internet Explorer 3.0 SBS: Web Address Returns Error Message

Article ID: 171929

Article Last Modified on 1/7/2000

APPLIES TO

MSPRESS Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.0 Step by Step ISBN 1-57231-300-5

This article was previously published under Q171929

SYMPTOMS

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

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

http://mspress.microsoft.com/

WORKAROUND

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

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.

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