There be strange things going on on the BT network- pointed out by a poster on BT Beta forums
http://www.beta.bt.com/bta/forums/me...ID=22635#22635
go to bt.com and do a site search for webwise using their site search box
you now get a 404 page when following the single search result link.
http://www2.bt.com/0?com.bea.event.t...oLDesc=KB_1167
If this link is modified by adding a webwise directory and taking out the 0 before the ? it does then work
http://www2.bt.com/webwise/?com.bea....oLDesc=KB_1167
The ordinary links to the BT Webwise FASTHOSTS page
http://www2.bt.com/0?com.bea.event.t...oLDesc=KB_1167
and the mirrored bt.com Webwise pages
http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...=CON-WEBWISE-I
work normally.
A google search on KB_1167 turns up a forum post with a very similar link, to Webwise, which DOES work - here
forum link
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&ct=...rze4kjn9fQp9Qg
posted link containing the term KB_1167
http://www.webwise.bt.com/webwise/in...oLDesc=KB_1167
It's probably nothing - but then it is BT, and it is only 3 days before the trials are supposed to start...
I've popped in a query to the webmaster on bt.com using their Contact Us black hole creator.
Update - now all the search results from bt.com seem to be bad links, producing a "page not available" page.
Time to ring Russia?
they were supposed to be doing BT Broadband Office maintenance this morning and yesterday, so maybe that's it. and of course the Business platform should be nothing to do with the Phorm equipment.
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Just noticed that the BTYahoo! official ISP help pages search box does not know anything about "webwise".
zero hits, likewise for "phorm"
That won't look too good in court. Informed consent? Good grief! (as Charlie Brown used to say)
(that's in addition to the broken bt.com search box mentioned above)
Looks like it will be an interesting bank holiday weekend on BT!