OK, I'm having an issue that's driving me nuts. I have not manually changed anything - that doesn't mean that something hasn't changed automatically via some tool or something.
Starting today I cannot log into
www.netflix.com on Linux. Whenever I try to login, it just takes forever and then either Chrome or Firefox tell me that perhaps the site no longer exists. It works perfectly fine on Windows. Strangely it also does not work on my Roku box and is working sporadically on my PS3. I would think it was my ISP or my router if it wasn't working perfectly fine on Windows.
I AM NOT TRYING TO WATCH NETFLIX ON LINUX. I know that doesn't work. I'm just trying to update my queue. I'm having this problem both on Fedora and Ubuntu (latest stable releases on both). I know it's not just loading from cache on my Windows machine because I'm going to pages that I have never been to and it's working just fine. Now, I have not tried signing out and in because then I'll be up a creak. OK, I installed another browser on my Windows computer and I'm able to sign into Netflix just fine. So it's not a sign-in issue.
WHY DOES THIS WORK ON WINDOWS? It's the same browsers - Chrome and Firefox on Linux and Windows and the same network.
ALSO, flickr is not working correctly - I cannot make any comments in the discussions (but can on photos which is ajax-y).
ANYTHING to keep me from further tearing my hair out would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks!
update: also checked a Linux computer using Linux Mint that hasn't been turned on in 2 months. I know it was able to access Netflix back then. Nothing has been changed - not even updates. It also cannot access Netflix. Either taking forever to load Netflix.com or when trying to login.
via looking in Konqueror, I saw it's trying to go
https://www.netflix.com/redirect.jsp...es.netflix.com and that's what makes it so that I cannot connect to
www.netflix.com if it considers me to be signed in. And here's what Konqueror said:
The requested operation could not be completed
Connection to Server Closed Unexpectedly
Details of the Request:
URL:
http://movies.netflix.com
Protocol: http
Date and Time: Thursday, February 24, 2011 22:56
Additional Information: movies.netflix.com
Description:
Although a connection was established to movies.netflix.com, the connection was closed at an unexpected point in the communication.
Possible Causes:
There may have been a problem with your network connection.
There may have been a problem at some point along the network path between the server and this computer.
A protocol error may have occurred, causing the server to close the connection as a response to the error.
Possible Solutions:
Try again, either now or at a later time.
Contact the administrator of the server for further assistance.
Contact your appropriate computer support system, whether the system administrator, or technical support group for further assistance.