Address Not Valid Error In Internet Explorer 8
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Guy, we highly recommend that you visit our Guide for New Members. Internet Explorer - ADDRESS NOT VALID Discussion in 'Web & Email' started by LucyMichaels, Jul 22, 2009. Thread Status: internet explorer 8 address bar Not open for further replies. Advertisement LucyMichaels Thread Starter Joined: Jul 22, 2009 Messages: 3
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I am using Windows XP and IE8. On my toolbar, I have two places to type the main IE and a the address is not valid http Google search slot. I have my default search engine as Google and my home page default is MSN. Until yesterday, I could type anything into the main IE slot incomplete Web names, misspelled Web names, questions. I http address not valid ie8 would get a variety of results almost always helpful. Now, when I type anything less than a perfect Web address, I get the Address Not Valid screen. I LOVED this feature please help me get it back. LucyMichaels, Jul 22, 2009 #1 Sponsor Mr. Freeman Joined: Sep 26, 2004 Messages: 149 Are you able to type a correct web address though and surf to it? If not, it sounds like the
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DNS settings may be incorrect. Go to Control Panel in Classic View>Network Connections>right-click the Local Area Connection and select Properties>highlight Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) in the list and click on Properties again>make sure "Obtain DNS server address automatically" is selected>click OK and then test surf again. Mr. Freeman, Jul 23, 2009 #2 LucyMichaels Thread Starter Joined: Jul 22, 2009 Messages: 3 Thanks for the try -but, "Obtain DNS Server Address Automatically" was already selected. LucyMichaels, Jul 23, 2009 #3 Mr. Freeman Joined: Sep 26, 2004 Messages: 149 I've had this problem frequently with IE 8. Open a command prompt window by clicking on Start>Run, backspacing anything in there, and typing in only " CMD ." (No quotes, no period.) You should get a black window. In that black window, type in " ping www.yahoo.com " or " ping www.google.com ." (Again, no quotes, no period, and pay attention to the spaces between the word, "ping" and the URL.) If you get "Reply from ..." four times and then it tells you that the packets sent were four and received were four, then you are connected to the internet. What this means is that your computer, the modem, and the internet are all talking to one another, but your browser is not. First, make sure to turn off/disable any firewalls or anti-virus programs
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address is not valid” In this Internet Explorer error message, “address” refers to the whole Uniform Resource Locator (URL) (e.g. http:///www.example.com/foo.html) rather than to a http://www.getnetgoing.com/Internet-Explorer-The-address-is-not-valid.html domain name (e.g. www.example.com)1, which is often just one part of the URL. This is often caused by an invalid character in the URL. Internet Explorer tries to correct invalid characters (e.g. replacing backward slashes, “\”, with forward slashes “/”), and will include three forward slashes near the beginning of the address if internet explorer it seems invalid, e.g. http:`//www.example.com turns into http:///www.example.com and http://?www.example.com turns into http:///?www.example.com Symptoms Solutions The set of characters that are valid depends in a complicated way on their position in the URL (see RFC 3986 for details), but usually a valid URL will: Start with http:// Be followed by a domain internet explorer 8 name consisting of letters or numbers, separated by dots Optionally be followed by at most one of each of the following, in this order: A slash “/”, followed by a file pathname A question mark, followed by a query A number sign “#” followed by an alphanumeric string Check that the address that you used did not include other characters. Characters other than letters, digits, underscores and hyphens are often shown using percent encoding in which single characters are represented by a percent symbol followed by two hexadecimal digits, e.g. a space character should be encoded as “%20” What worked for other people Other people fixed this error after determining that it was caused by spyware on their computer in particular browser hijackers malformed proxy information Extra information Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) The proper structure of a URL is defined in RFC 3986: scheme “:” authority path [ “?” query ] [ “#” fragment ] e.g.