What is wrong with FreePages lately? It will occasionally return this error (Bad Request) for perfectly legitimate requests, sometimes even when following a WorldConnect link. A reload will usually clear it, so it's nothing I'm doing. Using FireFox 3.5.7 on Windows (shudder) Vista Home Premium SP2, both fully patched and updated. -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ 538 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17°-19° century New England & European roots. Total population: 136,000+ Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/ email: DAV4IS@YAHOO.COM A Democrat, a Republican and a giraffe walk into a bar. The bartender looks up from his want ads and says, "What is this, a joke?" -unknown

At 03:43 PM 1/22/2010, Rod Dav4is wrote: >What is wrong with FreePages lately? It will occasionally return this >error (Bad Request) for perfectly legitimate requests, sometimes even >when following a WorldConnect link. A reload will usually clear it, so >it's nothing I'm doing. > >Using FireFox 3.5.7 on Windows (shudder) Vista Home Premium SP2, both >fully patched and updated. When I download mail, I collect mail from 3 different services using my primary one. For the last week or two, one or more of the connections times out, and I have to ask for my mail again, and again and sometimes again -- to get all of it. I wonder if the rain, snow and ice in various parts of the country is affecting phone and cable lines and the neighborhood distribution points. I haven't had any problems with accessing Freepages sites, but images from Ancestry databases vary from instantaneous to literally 2 to 3 minutes. Pat Asher