Windows media for mac -- aarrrggh

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I cannot for the life of me seem to download either the final Windows Media Player for Mac nor the Flip4Mac Quicktime plug-in. In Firefox i get

Firefox can’t find the server at download.microsoft.com.

and in Safari i get a similar message. I’ve tried emailing Microsoft but they can’t seem to find anything wrong, and, hey i’m on a mac so why should they care, right?

Any ideas? Is it my ISP (Comcast, i can’t imagine they’d block access to Microsoft)?

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If you click this: http://download.microsoft.com does it give
you the same message? Or does it redirect to an actual webpage?

EDIT: I was able to download the file called
WM Components 2.1.2.72.dmg
on my Sun box. I assume that’s what you need. If you’re still
having problems, I could email it to you, or put it up on my
webspace emporarily..

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yes, i get the same message. also i just tried my wife’s windows laptop and it can’t get through either.

if you could email me the file that would be awesome! i’ll PM you. thanks!

4

Yeah, that sounds like an ISP problem. Maybe they disable the kind
of redirect that’s being done. When I go to download.microsoft.com
it redirects me to http://www.microsoft.com/downloads
Are you also unable to go to that URL?

Anyway, I’ve sent you the file in case you can’t resolve the URL issue…

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I can get to the http://www.microsoft.com/downloads URL. When i try to go through the links to get to the file, i get sent to the download.microsoft.com URL and then i get the error message.

Anyway, thank you very very much for sending me the file, :smiley: and i think i’ll email Comcast to see what’s up with the redirect problem.

Thanks again for your help.

6

the problem might be the DNS server and not the ISP

the ISP would be asking the DomainNameServer for the address assigned to the URL

Didn’t really want to know? :smiley:

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The problem may also be any anti-hacker software you may be running if it doesn’t like the form of the redirect.

djm

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I couldn’t get the page on my wife’s Windows machine, either, though.

OTOH, i find it hard to fathom why Comcast wouldn’t allow access to the Microsoft downloads page.

Might be just another South Florida thing… :laughing:

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I was thinking about this, and I seem to remember having a problem
getting to downloads.microsoft.com a couple weeks ago. I’m having
no problems now. I think Microsquish may have changed the IP on
that site, and the new one hadn’t propogated to my DNS server yet.
Now that the DNS is finally up-to-date, I have no problems. I’ll bet
that in a few days, once Comcast’s DNS updates, you’ll be able to see
it without difficulty.