Connection closed by remote server

Connection closed by remote server

Connection closed by remote server - this is another error message I have been receiving for the past 2 days whenever I attempt to link from one site to another. H E L P !!! This is very disturbing. Thanks for your help.

I'm having the same issue, in almost any form. Please fix this ...

I have the same problem. Only in my case it occurs random. Every time I commit post I can have a ~10% chance to get this error.

I have been having the same problem for quite a while now.
the message appears maybe 3 times in a minute whilst on one particular site, and is the same using 2 diff pcs.
I have asked other people using the same site, and all report no problems.
I have been in touch with Opera support, and no joy whatsoever.

I do not want to switch browsers, as I find opera to be by far the quickest

OK peoples - we need some more info. We cannot help you without this.

Have you tried with other browsers -- IE, FF, Google etc?

Paste some hyperlinks here so we can suss 'em.

What OS & flavour, what Opera version (& build too is helpful)?

Gordon.

[ePyBuM]I have the same problem. Only in my case it occurs random. Every time I commit post I can have a ~10% chance to get this error.

Same here. When I try to send a filled form hitting SEND, OK or whatsoever button causes the message. Not every time though.
Only one particular pattern that I have noticed so far is that this message occurs when I try to send a form but the page containing the actual form haven't finished to load yet. I mean the page is displayed and the form is loaded, but status message on the bottom of page still says that the page is loading. I hope you get what I wanted to say.

Win XP SP3, Opera 10.60.3445. I experienced this problem on 10.10 too. I've checked this on FF a couple of times and it works normal.

okedokey, have tried most other browsers, and the problem does not occur.
It seems to be only one site the error comes up on: http://www.tribalwars.co.uk/

at it's worst, I can click 3 times + and the same error will come up.

I am running vista premium service pack 2, opera is 10.60

Can I just say, the problem only started after updating a couple of months ago, before that it worked fine.

Originally posted by nimander:

It seems to be only one site the error comes up on: http://www.tribalwars.co.uk/

Ummm... Maybe it's a site problem rather than an Opera problem? For example, non-standard scripting, which rubbish browsers happily cater for, but Opera will have problems with? ECMAScript does have a standard.

Gordon.

Unfortunately not mate, is a tribe game, and none of the people (around 40) have never experienced the problem

I've spotted. Mine displays Connection closed message after some action is performed with forms (i.e. search, jumping to page using drop down menu etc)

This happens to me as well, but quite randomly. I can visit a site a dozen times and on the thirteenth get that message. When it occurs, that page will also not open in FF or IE.

OK, let's leave TribalWarsUK out of the discussion. What other sites does this problem happen on?

Gordon.

my.opera.com when posting replies.

Originally posted by OperaTaur:

Only one particular pattern that I have noticed so far is that this message occurs when I try to send a form but the page containing the actual form haven't finished to load yet. I mean the page is displayed and the form is loaded, but status message on the bottom of page still says that the page is loading.

Originally posted by OperaTaur:

Mine displays Connection closed message after some action is performed with forms (i.e. search, jumping to page using drop down menu etc)

Originally posted by HeinrichP:

my.opera.com when posting replies.

This was posted 17-11-05, the writer was using v7.11...

OPERA'S EXPLANATION OF "CONNECTION CLOSED" ERROR:

The reason for this problem is that the serverside script that handles the
request is submitted as a form and returns a malformed HTTP chunked encoding
response.

What the server sent in the case I looked at was:

------------start of response
23c6<CRLF>
<0x23c6 bytes of data (9158 bytes>
<CRLF>
<CRLF>
------------end of response/connection shut down

What Opera expected was this:

------------start of response
23c6<CRLF>
<0x23c6 bytes of data (9158 bytes>
<CRLF>
0<CRLF>
<CRLF>
------------end of response/connection shut down

Please notice the line with the zero length.

For more information about chunked encoding see RFC 2616, sec. 3.6.1
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/....html#sec3.6.1 .

In this case Opera believes that there was a transmission error, which
caused the response to be truncated.

Under normal circumstances Opera would have resubmitted the request in order
to verify the length, or get the rest of the data. As this request is
submitted as a forms request, however, that approach is not possible. There
could be undesirable side effects when a form is submitted twice (Oh, you
didn't order those two cars? Then why are there two orders from you in our
system?).

Because Opera did not receive the end of body indication, Opera has to
assume that it didn't receive the entire document, and as it cannot verify
the length by refetching it informs the user that there was a problem and
that the result may not be what the user expected by displaying a
"Connection closed by remote server" message.

The problem can be solved by inserting a "<CRLF>0" sequence between the end
of the body and the two last <CRLF>'s .

BTW: On a normal request, if Opera is not able to determine the correct size
of the document because the size is varying erratically, Opera will say that
multiple attempts to load the document failed.

END OF OPERA'S EXPLANATION.

from Bytes.com

Originally posted by md2lgyk:

I can visit a site a dozen times and on the thirteenth get that message. When it occurs, that page will also not open in FF or IE.

I'm no expert, but I would imagine the server has looked at your IP and decided not to do business with anything you have... In any case, that does look like a site problem rather than an Opera problem.

Gordon.

I'll switch to other browser for a while to check if this error happens there too on a regular basis.
Will post the results

//Edit
It happened with Opera 10.70.3480 too. FF works well though
BTW it happened when I've been trying to post THIS message.

I join this thread. I've been getting this message on all kinds of sites since installing 10.60 and now 10.70. It's a real nuisance.

I have the same problem with 10.61.
Never had that with 10.6.
Went back to 10.6 and it is working OK.

This seems to happen more often on some networks than others. On the network at the University of Illinois, it happens with annoying frequency, and it can happen on any form on any page, often multiple times in a row. This does not happen with any other browser.

oh the irony.png

Having this exact same problem myself, most often when submitting forms of some kind (forum posts, task-managing system called Jira, but also sometimes when just clicking a normal link to a different webpage. When it happens with a normal link, you just refresh the page or go back and try again.

However, if it happens when trying to submit a form, you will be unable to re-submit the form even if you do go back to the previous page. All the data you entered into the form is still there, but no matter how many times you click the "Submit" or "Post"-button, Opera will not re-submit the form. So you have to reload the form from scratch and fill it out all over again. Very annoying.

I have the same problem, but it does not occur randomly, it occurs with any webpage, even with Opera. So I am currently using Firefox.
I am on opera 10.62. I installed it after I got this problem with the earlier version, but obviously this did not help.
I am on WIndows 7

So for now I will need to set Firefox as the default browser

Connection closed by remote server

You tried to access the address http://www.spiegel.de/, which is currently unavailable. Please make sure that the web address (URL) is correctly spelled and punctuated, then try reloading the page.
Make sure your Internet connection is active and check whether other applications that rely on the same connection are working.
Check that the setup of any Internet security software is correct and does not interfere with ordinary web browsing.
If you are behind a firewall on a Local Area Network and think this may be causing problems, talk to your systems administrator.
Try pressing the F12 key on your keyboard and disabling proxy servers, unless you know that you are required to use a proxy to connect to the Internet. Reload the page.
Need help?
Open the Opera Help.
Go to Opera's online support desk.

I'm having the same problem on the three most recent versions of opera (on linux), and I'm currently having it with opera-10.62-6438.i386. Sometimes when accessing google.com via the "g" url accelerator I get the "network connection error" that becomes "internal connection" on every subsequent try.

I've found out that it is strictly an opera problem (as everything continues to work properly with other browsers) but als somehow network-related: restarting the network fixes the problem, while restarting or even upgrading opera does not.

I suspect the problem is related to the extreme sluggishness of our DHCP/DNS server, to a problem with the network card drivers that accumulates over time or to some other network issue. However I'm not able to investigate the matter any deeper. I could try to use external DNS, but I cannot because I would loose the intranet pages.

Happens often, yet randomly, here, too.

It happens ALL the time for me - sorry but i started a new thread on this.

I guess i am glad i have company but it sounds like you guys are tech guys that are getting that message.

I am a little dumb old Opera user.

Give me opera or give me death so i am without interet right now

Seems like nobody gives a damn, then, judging by the replies that haven't appeared from the techs...

Ho-Hum... Back to K-Meleon, then. :\

Same problem. When will this be fixed?

First post in this thread was nearly four months ago.

So, don't hold your breath.

I'm using K-Meleon, now. I'm getting so used to it, that I may well give Opera the flick.

Opera 10.63 just installed.

Error persists.

Good work, devs!

[/irony]

Found a possible workaround.

Preferences>Network.

UNcheck "Encode international web addresses with utf-8" and UNcheck "Enable geolocation", too.

Makes it happen far less often, at least, for me.

As far as I understood, I have the same problem(not sure, because I have proxified connection and such errors will be sink by proxy, revealing for only general error information) with one site. When navigating using usual links all works. But when posting via forms(message replies) - it hang for some time and then return error.
Support service of that site says that this can be network problem: some of intermediate nodes(probably routers) configured to very small MTU value, so they split packets into series of smaller following immediately one after other. AFAIK, such series of packets can be treated as a kind of DDoS attack by some "smart" routers, so they drop those packets. And I think they are right: when I connecting to this site via another local provider(or via web-tunnel service) - all works perfectly. They have tried to fix something on their side, but it helped only for a couple of days, and only for some users.

So conclusion is sad: it seems neither server nor client(Opera) side can guarantee 100% fix.

This is not a new problem!

Have a look at this link below and you'll see we were having the same problem just over 12mths ago when we were using the 10.1 edition back then.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=295592

Regards,

Chris.

Seems like the devs don't care about that page, either.

Originally posted by Katzy:

Seems like the devs don't care about that page, either.

May be they just don't know about it. This is mainly a "user to user" forum with some developers reading in their spare time. If they would read all what is posted here in the forums, they wouldn't be able to fix bugs anymore

If you think it is an Opera bug, please file a bug report after reading this. Bug reports will be read by a developer.

You mean the devs don't use Opera, themselves?

Even they must get this happening.

It seems to happen on certain network setups, but not others, so the devs might not be seeing it happen at all.

With over 1250 views and only 33 replies, does this mean after putting up with this for over 12mths now we're the only ones having this problem???

Regards,

Chris.

I'm having the same problem. Except that in my case the error "Connection closed by remote server" isn't random but it always comes up, all the time, no matter what website I try to enter into the access bar (even portal.opera.com/).

Hence, I cannot use Opera at all but IE, Chrome and Firefox work fine. I was using Opera version 10.63.

By the way, I think it's unhelpful to know that the reason for this bug is possibly due to some issue with "chunked HTTP encoding" (as was posted above in this thread). An explanation of this bug without any solution doesn't help. The only thing we need to know an answer to is: How can we fix it?

I did send a bug report and I personally suggest that everyone do it that have the same or a similar problem.

Originally posted by hibernus:

I'm having the same problem. Except that in my case the error "Connection closed by remote server" isn't random but it always comes up, all the time, no matter what website I try to enter into the access bar (even portal.opera.com/).

Hence, I cannot use Opera at all but IE, Chrome and Firefox work fine. I was using Opera version 10.63.

By the way, I think it's unhelpful to know that the reason for this bug is possibly due to some issue with "chunked HTTP encoding" (as was posted above in this thread). An explanation of this bug without any solution doesn't help. The only thing we need to know an answer to is: How can we fix it?

I did send a bug report and I personally suggest that everyone do it that have the same or a similar problem.

It seems you're having a bigger problem than me, at least I can use Opera.

I did a Google search and it appears this has been an ongoing problem for a good few years now, even back in the earlier builds of Opera.

I've submitted a bug report too now, a good suggestion I agree.

Like yourself I have IE, Firefox and Google Chrome, but I like Opera and want to continue using it, so lets hope it can be fixed.

Regards,

Chris.

Originally posted by sirch345:

It seems you're having a bigger problem than me, at least I can use Opera.

I did a Google search and it appears this has been an ongoing problem for a good few years now, even back in the earlier builds of Opera.

I've submitted a bug report too now, a good suggestion I agree.

Like yourself I have IE, Firefox and Google Chrome, but I like Opera and want to continue using it, so lets hope it can be fixed.

Regards,

Chris.

I'm not the only one that has this problem all the time (non-random), making it impossible to use Opera to browse anything at all. At least two other users have mentioned the same situation ("butzlaff" and "GiveMeOpera"). Most likely the people that frequent this site and actually post on this thread is a small fraction of the users that have or will encounter the exact same bug.

If it weren't for this bug I would definitely use and recommend Opera. I was very happy when I first got Opera and I believed it was the best browser I had tried so far. I was disappointed when the bug started and I was unable to do anything in Opera anymore but I decided to search for the solution to it. I was very disappointed and just bewildered when I realized that this is an old bug that has never been fixed and that it actually has no solution at all.

The situation with this issue doesn't look promising but I hope likewise it will get fixed..

Cheers,
Sigurdur

i am sick to death of the 'connection closed' message i keep getting several times a day. its especially annoying when it happens while i am trying to post on a forum. i've had it 5 times today so far.

is there a way to stop this happening? a SIMPLE way?

I hadn't realised I had so many of Opera's earlier builds still on my PC, I was under the impression that each time the latest build was installed the previous version was removed. I now realise that was not so. So having read somewhere this can up-set Opera's browser I thought I'd try something out.

This is what I tried yesterday.
I saved all my bookmarks first, then set a new restore point. Next I removed Opera (builds 9.64, 10.00, 10.10, and 10.63) from my PC using Revo uninstaller. Next I rebooted my PC, downloaded a new 10.63 build and re-installed it.

It's only early days yet I know, but it would appear this has made the problem if anything worse!!!

The problem persists with Opera 11 latest snapshot
If that's the problem of particular site or network, how come FF handles it correctly?
Very, very annoying indeed

yesterday it happened a total of 13 times!

Originally posted by paulatz:

I'm having the same problem on the three most recent versions of opera (on linux), and I'm currently having it with opera-10.62-6438.i386. Sometimes when accessing google.com via the "g" url accelerator I get the "network connection error" that becomes "internal connection" on every subsequent try.

I've found out that it is strictly an opera problem (as everything continues to work properly with other browsers) but als somehow network-related: restarting the network fixes the problem, while restarting or even upgrading opera does not.

I suspect the problem is related to the extreme sluggishness of our DHCP/DNS server, to a problem with the network card drivers that accumulates over time or to some other network issue. However I'm not able to investigate the matter any deeper. I could try to use external DNS, but I cannot because I would loose the intranet pages.

I don't recall this problem until 10.5x. Some days it is so bad that I can't use Opera at all but other browsers have no problems. It seems to be a random occurrence although it is worse on the days when Opera cannot fully load any site (other browsers cannot either on those days). I don't see how it can be a DNS server problem as I have virtual machines as well as the host machine and I use different DNS servers on each machine yet the problem is on all machines (XP Pro and Vista Ultimate).

jesus this is pissing me off so much, i'm seriously thinking of defecting to firefox. everytime i go to post something in a forum i have to try and remember to copy the text i've just written before hitting submit. i've forgotten a number of times and ended up having to rewrite everything again.

this only started when i began using version 10.63, i went back to 10.50 but the problem remained[never had the problem when i originally used this version].

is there an easy fix or not?

is this affecting every opera user?

What I find strange is how some of us have this problem when others don't seem to be.

I wonder if a certain program we're running on our computers is causing a confliction with the Opera browser?

Anyone else had this thought?

Chris.

So it has to do with Opera?

It started occasionally happening to me like a month ago and I thought it had something to do with my router/connection..

If it does not happen with other browsers, then it's definitely Opera issue

Dear diary,
Getting really sick and tired of this Connection closed blah blah blah
Considering to switch to Chrome as it's lighter than FF (need to do some trial use of it before the final decision).

Settings > preferences > advanced > network > proxy servers
Disable all proxy servers. Mine was the http server, and wouldn't allow me to access any pages. Now that I've disabled that, it works fine.

This fixed it for me

go to opera:config#Performance|Network Buffer Size and set it to 4096
Save

Found it here:
http://my.opera.com/community/forums/findpost.pl?id=7795882