Internet - redirects always show "page not found"

[garystu1965]

Windows XP, IE6. 1Mb broadband.

Let's say I go to a travel site that throws up a few redirects to get best deals for hotels (ie Expedia, Opodo, Travelocity) the redirected pages come back with "page cannot be displayed". However it works if the redirected page starts with the destination website's proper address.

For example if I was on www.tripadvisor.com and one of the redirectors is to Expedia.co.uk then the following is the case....

This would work ok... "http://www.expedia.co.uk...." (driectly throws up Expedia website).

However doesn't work if it's "http://www.tripadvisor.com/ExpediaHotelsGDSU...." (directing to Expedia through it's own URL with fancy switches at the end of the URL).

Any ideas ? Have I explained myself correctly ?

 

[Pierre Levegh]

Have you your firewall on?

What are you security settings set at?

Are you accepting cookies?

I can't see the expedia hotels link, so it may not exist. You may be looking at an old cached version of the website.

 

[splang]

have you tried ctrl-f5 to reload afresh (clears cache on that page)?

 

[garystu1965]

have you tried ctrl-f5 to reload afresh (clears cache on that page)?

Genius ! Thank you.

 

[Kinky]

Speaking of 404 errors - I was pointed to this earlier - there's some absolute crackers in there .... a few crude ones - so not 100% work safe.

Just let it run ..... www.b3ta.com/a

K