Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Computing/2018 October 25

= October 25 =

refused to connect
A couple of web sites have given the message "refused to connect" when I attempted to access them. Why would this happen? Is there anything I can do about it? --Halcatalyst (talk) 15:08, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Any example? Ruslik_ Zero 20:28, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
 * One was to register for an AARP event ("aarp.cevent.com refused to connect" and the other I can't remember. --Halcatalyst (talk) 03:51, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
 * This link: https://aarp.cvent.com/events/EventRsvp.aspx works for me. Ruslik_ Zero 20:44, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Yes, that link works for me too. Above, I should have included the actual link where I get the error: https://aarp.cevent.com/FWOnTapDM . --Halcatalyst (talk) 03:57, 27 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Looks to be because the URL is invalid. cevent.com redirects to cvent.com. The website clearly brands itself as Cvent. I'm guessing they keep the cevent.com simply for typos etc but they may not have set up each subdomain to redirect correctly. Anyway if you typed in that cevent.com URL yourself, I suspect you simply screwed up. If it came as that from somewhere else printed or online, I guess someone else screwed up. The correct URL should be aarp.cvent.com not aarp.cevent.com https://aarp.cvent.com/FWOnTapDM works fine although ""  By the same token if I try to access https://support.gogle.com/ it doesn't work. If I try to access https://support.google.com/ it will work. If I try to access http://www.gogle.com/ it also works. If I try to access https://www.gogle.com/ it slightly of works. (They are using the security certificate from google.com so most browsers will complain that it's in invalid certificate. If you ignore this, Google probably won't understand what you're trying to access so you'll get a 404.) Interesting enough, https://gogle.co.nz/ works but goes to some sort of internet safety for kids programme page.  Nil Einne (talk) 06:16, 27 October 2018 (UTC)