400 Bad Request?

Factual Questions
1

As I’ve mentioned in passing before, I have been a member of Christian Forums for five years now. Over the last two days, my computer automatically downloaded and installed the upgrade to Firefox 3.0.9. Since that upgrade:

  1. I can access CF by the pre-esxisting bookmark, which is to my User CP listing subscribed threads.

  2. I can sometimes but not always get the main menu listing of CF forums (equivalent of the page that lists GQ, MPSIMS, etc. here)

  3. I cannot open any of the forums or threads. What I get is “400 Bad Request /
    nginx/0.6.35”

  4. When I wised up and looked at page info on that list, it informed me that the site does not encrypt, and that others can see what I send. (Since what I send is my posts, this is hardly an issue.)

  5. I can access CF using MSIE, though I hate using that program for doeznes of good reasons, including security against viruses.

I cannot find any way to convince Firefox that I actually do want to access CF and navigate around that site. Any experiences in coping with this? Any clues as to what I should do?

2

I can’t help you, but you may want to follow this thread: http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=tr&comments_parentId=340559&forumId=1

Erm, unless it’s yours.

Some sites block Firefox automatically to prevent people from viewing their pages while using AdBlock, but you said it’s only been happening since you upgraded…

3

That would be mine – I neglected to mention I went to the Moizilla help site before asking here.

4

The most recent Firefox upgrade was to 3.0.10, specifically to fix some issues with 3.0.9. Try updating, see if that helps.

5

Got the answer to this from a Firefox user on their help site. I’m documenting it here so that anyone with the same sort of problem will know what to do:

Clear the Cache and Delete the Cookies from site(s) that cause problems:
Tools > Options > Advanced > Network > Offline Storage (Cache): “Clear Now”
Tools > Options > Privacy > Cookies: “Show Cookies”

On the latter, for obvious reasons, you only remove the cookies from the site(s) causing problems.

6

Polycarp: Yeah. I had to do that for Gmail of all things.