Error Message: Error 404: Requested Information Is Unavailable

Last reviewed: September 29, 1997
Article ID: Q156330

3.00 WINDOWS kbtool kberrmsg

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0 for Windows 95

SYMPTOMS

When you click a link to another Web page in Internet Explorer, you may receive the following error message:

   Error - 404
   Requested information

   /A>
   is unavailable. Failed to connect to server.

CAUSE

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code for the link before the selected link in the Web page is missing a quotation mark. Although some Internet browsers, including Internet Explorer version 2.0, permit this error to pass and connect to the link, Internet Explorer version 3.0 strictly adheres to the convention of enclosing links within quotation marks.

RESOLUTION

Notify the author of the Web page of the HTML coding error.

KBCategory: kbtool kberrmsg
KBSubcategory: msiew95
Additional reference words: 3.00 ie30 ie3
Keywords : kberrmsg kbtool msiew95
Version : 3.00
Platform : WINDOWS

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Last reviewed: September 29, 1997
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