trying to understand why the Blackberry can't see a website

[Peter]

On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, bob wrote:

> I have access to a Blackberry and have been trying its browser on a number of
> websites.
>
> The "Try Me" link at   http://www.io-anywhere.ca is one site where the
> Blackberry refuses to find the site and reports a "503" error,  yet every
> other browser I've tried finds it just fine.
>
> At first I thought that the Blackberry was having trouble with html forms,
> but I tried one of my forms at
> http://www.icanprogram.com/31ux/linuxsurvey.html at it found it no problem.
>
> I then tried wget on both URL's to see if I could detect a difference.   The
> only noticable difference is that when accessing the IOA site the wget
> reports an "unspecified" number of bytes whereas the iCanProgram site comes
> back with a number of bytes.
>
> Anyone else have an idea what is happening here?

D/l the page from www-io-anywhere.ca and serve it from your server. It 
will then have a correct Content-Length: field. Point your bb browser at 
this page. If it works then it may have been that.

Peter
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