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Internet Explorer / Firefox automatically trying to connect to VPN

November 27, 2007 03:56 by Justin King

Quite often I would go to a page and it would automatically bring up a connection dialog wanting to connect to my VPN and the page would just wait until I pressed Cancel to continue loading.

This occured both in Firefox and Internet Explorer and I thought it might have been the way my wireless connection was connected and was hunting through the settings to no avail.

VPN Dialog connection

Now not only was this annoying as I had to press Cancel to have the page continue loading but was happening all the time. I could understand on a 404 error page or bad domain but on a valid page seemed a bit weird to me.

I tracked down that this happened on any page that had a link to an image that did not exist (check your webstats for your own website and you will see quite often you might have a css file link to an image that is not there. I will post later on watching your site for errors. The setting would automatically dial a new connection as per the Internet Properties shown below was configured to do.

Internet Properties Auto Connect

All you need to do is turn this option to "Never dial a connection" and your back in business.


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