<cm.mathieu@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a problem on my house network. I have one XP SP3 desktop
> computer and a Vista Basic laptop. Both have IE7 installed. The two
> computers are connected to a netgear router by cables. On both
> computers, I cannot access my router's configuration page
> (192.168.0.1), I don't even have access to the prompt login of my
> router.

> I keep getting a HTTP 400 error,


That means there is something there but that it doesn't like your request
for some reason, possibly it doesn't like the protocol version you are trying
to use. E.g. try HTTP 1.0 instead of HTTP 1.1 or vice versa.

You could try simulating a request by using telnet to the address' port 80
E.g. enter GET / when the screen clears.

Does it work with another browser? Then the most likely cause is the
User-Agent string. You can spoof an MSIE 6.0 User-Agent string
using various utilities that are now available.


> but I can navigate anywhere
> on internet without any problems. I tried accessing my router using
> Microsoft Word 2003 Web toolbar on both computers and I got a little
> further. I got the prompt login of my router, but after the user and
> password entered, Word redirect to a IE7 window and then I get a HTTP
> 400 error. On my XP machine, I unistalled IE7 to get back to IE6 and
> try to access my router and it worked fined, I had access to
> everything. I reinstalled IE7 and tried I could not access to my
> router again. This makes me think that the problem is somewhere in
> IE7, because it seems to work with Word 2003, which was probably
> programmed with internet controls of IE5 or 6 since it's development
> date.

> I alos installed Firefox to try to access my router and it
> worked fine too. But I don't want to use Firefox, I prefer using the
> build in applications to reduce the risk of incompatibility softwares
> and also to reduce the amount of software installed on my machines,
> that does the same things. I have tried disabeling the TCP/IPv6
> protocol to my network connection, tried adding my router address to
> internet and intranet authorized sites, tried deactivated the fishing
> filter, nothing worked.
>
> Any ideas?


That definitely looks like the device is being stupid about your User-Agent.
Either spoof the User-Agent of something it likes or see if the device can
be modified to accept MSIE 7.0 in the User-Agent.


>
>
> Sorry for the mistakes, I'm a french speaking person.
>
> Charles


HTH

Robert Aldwinckle
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