If you have the fiirewall blocking the following:
Msg Request: GET
http://www.ebay.com/ticker/ebayticke.../www.ebay.com/
ticker/ebay_tswf_2.1.3.swf&iurl=http%3a//www.ebay.com/ticker/UStickerJS.html
&clickTAG=http%3a//altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/1065-8992-5718-0?ck=alt

then that is likely your problem. If this first request is blocked then it
takes several seconds for an ebay timeout to occur and the page load to
continue. Most proxies and firewalls will timeout before this time and
declare the server as non-existent.

This is actually a cute trick to ensure you are tracked.

On the home ebay page, this request is passed to mediaplex.com. This request
does not contain a referer field. So this request does not look like a
"third party request" so the cookie inside is not a third party cookie. See
http request below under line reading: Original Request. On subsequent
pages, the referer is included but the cookie in the request isn't needed.
Look at the url of the request to see why:
a.. Subpage Request: GET
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/1...=1067038885630
a.. Subpage Request: GET
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/1...=1067038885630
a.. Subpage Request: GET
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/1...=1067038885630
a.. Subpage Request: GET
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/1...=1067038885630
a.. Subpage Request: GET
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/1...=1067038885630
a.. Subpage Request: GET
http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/bn/1...=1067038885630

I am session 1065-9875...., I'm guessing that this number is embedded in the
cookie of the original request - the one that ws not a third party cookie.
The "-1" , "-2", etc is actually the order that my proxy sent the request
out to mediaplex.com while loading a second ebay page.

Here is a good site for info and tools:
http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~ehowes/bt...btw-intro3.htm

For a good http proxy tool to work for me and let me see what is going on,
I like:
http://www.surferprotectionprogram.c...b/SPPintro.htm

24 Oct 2003, Original Request:

Msg Request: GET
http://www.ebay.com/ticker/ebayticke.../www.ebay.com/
ticker/ebay_tswf_2.1.3.swf&iurl=http%3a//www.ebay.com/ticker/UStickerJS.html
&clickTAG=http%3a//altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/1065-8992-5718-0?ck=alt
Accept: */*
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0)
Host: www.ebay.com
Cookie: lucky9=518775; Listing=itemtime1;
nonsession=AQAAAAUAAAAQAAAARgAAADiQlD+4w3VBQDIwOS4 yMDQuNjUuMTYzZTExMjNtaWtlN
DU2ICQyJE1vemlsbGEvJEdYdUkuVGFCVWNDWHJKSE9iYmhYazG dAAAAEQAAADiQlD+4w3VBMDAwM
DAwMDAwnAAAAHQAAAA4kJQ/uMN1QUAyMDkuMjA0LjY1LjE2M2Uxblkrc0haMlByQm1kajZ3Vm 5ZK
3NFWjJQckEyZGo2d0prWUtvRFpXR29ncWRqNng5blkrc2VRPT0 gJDIkTW96aWxsYS8kNWNPL3hKO
WEzbnFqYXlpQzJnNkc1MTcAAABSAAAAOJCUP7jDdUFAMjA5LjI wNC42NS4xNjNlMTEwOTU1NDM2L
zA7QDE5MTUwMzEwMjsgJDIkTW96aWxsYS8kcGkydkNUbHRDNXp CYjY4OWhmd052MQgAAABiAAAAO
JCUPzgdvD8wMTA2NjcwMDc0NXg3NWh0dHA6Ly9jZ2kuZWJheS5 jb20vd3MvZUJheUlTQVBJLmRsb
D9WaWV3SXRlbSZjYXRlZ29yeT0zMzgxJml0ZW09MjE5NzkxODc 3Mk4*g; search=Set-Cookie:
search=st2; reg=%5EflagReg%3D1%5E





"Christopher James" <spammers.are@scum.com> wrote in message
news:3f985466$2_1@127.0.0.1...
> I'm a pretty regular Ebay UK browser .
> Problem is that for a few days now , I haven't been able to connect to
Ebay
> UK.
> All I get is " Can't find Server " .
> I can get onto the US ebay site , but when I click on a particular item ,
> more often than not , I'm back to " Can't find Server " .
>
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>
> I have Symantec's firewall in place all times .
>
> Very annoying , and puzzling ?
>
> Any help please .
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>
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