I don't know whether you've solved the problem with not being able to connect to your server yet. I've not been very active in the forums for a long time apart from the games discussion and word association threads, so have missed this and other threads on the subject (I think) Anyway, I’ve had the same problem several times since the giveaway project started, but it hasn’t been isolated to the giveaway servers. Downloading from such sites as Fileplanet and filefront has also been problematic.
I found that by clearing the internet cache and cookies by right clicking on the IE shortcut I was then able to connect and download. Whether it has something to do with retaining older pages from the giveaway site or something else I really don’t know, but it could be feasible that if an older page is being loaded due to cookies or whatever, then it would see the download link as old and therefore not valid; though this does not explain why I wasn’t able to download from other sites?
Still; it worked for me; so whenever I’m unable to download (which occurs infrequently, but still happens) I clear out the cache etc.
Please let me know if this works if and when you come across the same problem. Thank you.
Regards
Stephen