URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host address", other internet functions work correctly

[J. Landman Gay]

On 11/19/12 2:14 PM, Gabriel Johnson wrote:

> If altered slightly to give more feedback, then:
>
>     put url "http://www.google.com" into htmlText; put the result
>
> returns "invalid host address" in the message box.
...
> Does anyone know any more about the http url function in general? Is there
> some other process/function in sits on top of that I could look at to
> figure out why this specific user account causes it to fail?

It works okay for me, so I agree it's probably something specific to 
that computer. Does it have a custom hosts file? Is the firewall set up 
to allow LiveCode requests?

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