<p>I see that when I attempt to surf by the MIT admission site </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/</a> </p>
<p>in the last few days I get a "can't find server" error. Is the site undergoing annual maintenance? I like referring friends in my town to the information posted on that site.</p>
<p>Can you see it right now?</p>
<p>I can get it.</p>
<p>I cannot, using the link I just posted, which is pasted in from my browser's history and should be correct (right?). </p>
<p>Testing some more, I find I CANNOT get the site with Firefox (my usual browser) but can with Opera or IE (boo! hiss!). That's weird.</p>
<p>I use Firefox and can get it to work, including from the link you posted above. Occasionally in the past, though, I have gotten an error page at that link, which disappears upon refresh.</p>
<p>I've since seen the site with Firefox. I wonder if there was some subtle coding issue on the page.</p>
<p>I got to the site via firefox and IE this morning.</p>
<p>I have had successfully accesses through Firefox since I last posted, but NOT every time. I suspect that the staff is experimenting with something in the page coding that doesn't work with every browser consistently. I can't recall the last time any other page has been so problematic in Firefox.</p>
<p>NO other page on the Web is giving me the access troubles with Firefox that I have with </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/</a> </p>
<p>This morning Opera isn't working either, but I can view the page with IE and see the page source code includes JavaScript.</p>
<p>Opening fine for me in Firefox at this point in the day.</p>
<p>I'm still checking from time to time. Right now, </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/</a> </p>
<p>doesn't open in any of my browsers. I hope that just means a new-and-improved version of the site is on the way.</p>
<p>I'm using Mozilla Firefox and have never had any problems.</p>
<p>Would Kerberos authentication installed on my machine to identify it to a Brand X college possibly cause the MIT site to reject the connection? That's almost the only configuration change I've made recently that might explain the persistent problems I've had accessing the MIT admissions site--which I just replicated yet again.</p>
<p>Still pinging. I Googled, then followed the "Freshman" link from </p>
<p><a href="http://web.mit.edu/admissions/%5B/url%5D">http://web.mit.edu/admissions/</a> </p>
<p>to get </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/</a> </p>
<p>and found that the page didn't open in Firefox. Then I pasted into Opera, and that didn't work either. But the URL works fine pasted into IE. This is quite strange. I can't stand using IE, so it would be interesting to know what the browser-specific issue is with the page. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/</a> </p>
<p>My son can get the page every time via his GNU/Linux machine (same Internet connection, fed through a router in our home) running Firefox. At least the person here who most needs to access the page can get it, but it's odd to me that there would be any issue at all.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org</a> works fine for me in Firefox, from a Windows XP machine through a wireless router in our home.</p>
<p>And works fine for me on Firefox with Mac OS 10.3, with cable connection and router.
Tokenadult, are you sure you're not trying to drive up website hits? (Just teasing).</p>
<p>Pasting the link in again for more testing. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.mitadmissions.org/%5B/url%5D">http://www.mitadmissions.org/</a> </p>
<p>It has been working recently, but with some glitches still on Firefox.</p>
<p>Not working for me on the evening of Thursday 6 July 2007 in Firefox, Opera, or Internet Explorer.</p>
<p>Works for me in Firefox. I'm too lazy to test the others.
Suggestion for the bloggers, though. If you're going to be away for awhile, say so. Everyone will understand if you're vacationing or otherwise away, but if they click on a blog and the last entry is several months old, it doesn't look good.</p>
<p>Works for me tonight in Firefox, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer.</p>
<p>I'm on my son's GNU/Linux machine just now, and the site is displaying just fine in Linux Firefox.</p>