All of a sudden my laptop says: "Bad Request

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Size of a request header field exceeds server limit.

Apache Server at ip-10-97-130-43 Port 8443"

when I hit www.aol.com What is happening? Is there something wrong with my laptop or what? Not sure what to do.

AOL is still a thing? Really?
I thought AOL died a well deserved death in like 1993.

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AOL works for me by just clicking on your link ..

Well, I am wondering if there is something wrong with my motherboard. AOL works on all my other computers but not this laptop. Sometimes I can google AOL News or AOL Mail, click on that and it will work. But it is getting less and less successful. I just tried the link above too and it did not work.

I also work with Google and gmail but honestly I like both the AOL email and the way AOL presents news better. But I do recognize that AOL news definitely has a leftwing slant. And I know no one who really cares about the divorce of the Fixeruppers.

Working fine for me just by clicking on your link. The motherboard will have precisely the square root of jack crap to do with internet behavior. You have a problem with the web browser (I'm assuming you're still using Internet Exploder too?) or your ISP (internet provider) could be having a DNS resolution problem. Don't go chucking out the laptop, it isn't the problem.

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1995 E320 149K (Nancy)
1983 500SL 120K (SLoL)

Black Sheep:
1985 524TD 167K (TotalDumpster™)

Gone but not forgotten:
1986 300SDL (RIP)
1991 350SD
1991 560SEL
1990 560SEL
1986 500SEL Euro (Rusted to nothing at 47K!)

Interesting. I have been having trouble while using Chrome; will try IE for a while and report back.

Beat me to it speedy

Well, it acts the same on Chrome and IE. Anyone have an idea? I am still wondering about my motherboard.

Well stop wondering about the motherboard. If it loads ANY other site at all (obviously it loads this one since you're replying to your thread) the motherboard is fine. You have a software problem, not hardware.

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Current stable:
1995 E320 149K (Nancy)
1983 500SL 120K (SLoL)

Black Sheep:
1985 524TD 167K (TotalDumpster™)

Gone but not forgotten:
1986 300SDL (RIP)
1991 350SD
1991 560SEL
1990 560SEL
1986 500SEL Euro (Rusted to nothing at 47K!)

You might be right but you do not have the history of this laptop. Emachines NV53 which I have been using, something like 5-10 years maybe. About four months ago when I would turn it off and turn it back on again, it would not light the screen again. Everything would fire up, light on the dvd platter, lights on the keyboard, etc. but the screen would not light up. I would turn it off and back on maybe 50-100 times and then the screen would light up and it would work perfectly.

After a month of that and finally the screen would just not light up, I took it to a computer repair shop. They said the motherboard was probably bad but they might be able to solder(?) something on it and get it to work. $100 vs $200 or so for a new motherboard. Went the cheap route and it worked perfectly for about three months.

Now I am back to the screen will not light up again - that is why I am thinking motherboard.

So that's the history. And that's why I keep mentioning motherboard. I am not a computer geek and I just do not know. Wife says give it up and buy a new laptop but that's just not me - if it can be fixed. (I still have a 1955 Lawnboy lawnmower that works like a charm; replaced the starter recoil spring this summer and nothing else wrong with it.)

Are you thinking I could delete AOL and reload it like an app on my cellphone? In the old days you needed to load AOL from a cd and run it on your computer, but I do not think it works like that anymore. For example I am still running Quicken99 and everytime I buy a new computer, I pull out the old Quicken99 disk and load it again; man, did I get my money's worth out of that.

Failing to light the screen sounds like the flex cable up to the LCD panel has a break in it. eMachines is a pretty crap (super low end) brand, so I'm surprised it's lasted this long! Panel lighting up and websites not loading are completely separate issues. Websites are software based. You probably have browser issues or some sort of spamware on your computer. FWIW, I've serviced PC's since 1998, worked in a university IT department for 4 years and ran my own PC service company for 6 years. When I say it isn't motherboard causing your browser issues, you can take that to the bank.

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Current stable:
1995 E320 149K (Nancy)
1983 500SL 120K (SLoL)

Black Sheep:
1985 524TD 167K (TotalDumpster™)

Gone but not forgotten:
1986 300SDL (RIP)
1991 350SD
1991 560SEL
1990 560SEL
1986 500SEL Euro (Rusted to nothing at 47K!)

Flush your DNS cache. Google instructions and check back.

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Oops, it's a Gateway, not an Emachines. Just looked.

No, idea how to clear the cache but will try.

The flexible cable idea sounds right but the computer guys who repaired it must not agree. In fact the failure of the screen to light up is well covered on the internet to the extent that some say I should cook the laptop in the oven at a low heat to resolder(?) some motherboard connections. Did not try it but sure identified it as a well-known problem with the Gateway NV 53 laptop.

OK, now to figure how to un-cache.

You gotta love the information superhighway, don'tcha?

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You're a daisy if you do.
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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

OK, cleared the DNS cache. No help. Also ran Sophos for malware and it found nothing.