"Server Error in '/' Application"?? What does this mean?

Question

Everytime I try to go to a certain website (MySpace, if that matters at all) I get this message:
Runtime Error
Description: An application error occurred on the server. The current custom error settings for this application prevent the details of the application error from being viewed remotely (for security reasons). It could, however, be viewed by browsers running on the local server machine.
Details: To enable the details of this specific error message to be viewable on remote machines, please create a <customErrors> tag within a "web.config" configuration file located in the root directory of the current web application. This <customErrors> tag should then have its "mode" attribute set to "Off".
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="Off"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Notes: The current error page you are seeing can be replaced by a custom error page by modifying the "defaultRedirect" attribute of the application's <customErrors> configuration tag to point to a custom error page URL.
<!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
<configuration>
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" defaultRedirect="mycustompage.htm"/>
</system.web>
</configuration>
Can anyone help? I have no idea what any of that means. It's not a problem with my account because it works when I tried on my PC at home, but for some reason the past like 5 days it hasn't been working.

Answer 1

What browser are you using? Have you tried others like Firefox or Opera?
I've seen this problem before, but it was a problem with an old version of the Mozilla brower on OS9. If I remember correctly, it had something to do with allowing asynchronous connections (or something like that) in the network preferences. I don't think there's an equivalent preference for Safari or Firefox.
Besides, the server error you're encountering is fairly generic, and doesn't hint at the real problem. I would try restoring all browser preferences to their default, and clearing out your cache and cookies.