Re: MSN Broken Pipe error?

On Feb 9, 2005, at 9:12 AM, Sean Corfield wrote:

> Has MSN changed its protocol to keep Fire out? Or is MSN just down?

A quick glance at <http://messenger.msn.com/> will reveal how "down" 
MSN Messenger is at the moment. The situation was the same 
approximately 24 hours ago, and stayed that way for about 6 hours.  
Last night (New Zealand time -- eg, 12 hours ago) the service was back 
to normal.

> I get Broken Pipe, Disconnected every time I try to connect for the
> last day or so...

It's probably worth improving the error message that is displayed in 
this situation.  "Broken Pipe" is incredibly non-obvious, and doesn't 
provide any hint as to what went wrong.  It could be worthwhile for the 
error message to refer the user to 
<http://messenger.msn.com/Status.aspx> when a connection-related error 
occurs -- both network-level like "Broken Pipe" and protocol-level like 
"500 Internal server error", "601 Server is unavailable".

Regards,

Mark Rowe
<http://bdash.net.nz/>