In article <397EF3D5.D5F8EF36@alum.mit.edu>, Karl Zimmerman 
<kar### [at] alummitedu> wrote:

>http://www.povray.org/ yields an OK index frame, but the content frame
>says
>
>404 Not Found
>
>The URL requested was: /FlycastUniversal/index.js
>The operating system reports "The system cannot find the path
>specified." (3). 

A number of sites were having this problem last night. The simple fix 
was to turn off javascript in your browser.

What appeared to have been happening was this:

1) the site uses an off-site advertising agency (okay)

2) the off-site advertising agency uses javascript in their 
advertisements (bad) but puts the javascript in a separate file (good).

3) the off-site advertising agency misplaced their javascript file 
(naughty).

(4) when Netscape discovers that a javascript or CSS file that a page 
"needs" is missing, it erases the page that "needs" it and gives you an 
error (silly).

So, whenever you load a page using that advertising agency, it inserts a 
javascript request into the page you're viewing, your browser discovers 
that the javascript file it is requesting doesn't exist, and your 
browser tells you so.

Turn off javascript and your browser never requests the javascript file 
and never discovers that it is missing. You still see the ads, though. 
I'm sure you're thrilled about that :*)

Jerry

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