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

[Gabriel Johnson]

Thanks yeah, I realized that after I sent the email that htmlText is not a
good variable name, I put that in as an afterthought in the email. But it
returns the same result when I run it anyway.

No antivirus running.

Gabe


On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Michael Kann <mikekann at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Gabriel,
>
> I've never had this problem, but I'll chime in anyway -- what the heck.
> My  suspect is an anti-virus progam or two itching for a fight once in a
> while.
>
> One thing I noticed was that you used "htmlText" as a variable. Since
> "htmlText" is a reserved word it probably is risky to do that, though it
> seems to work for me, too.
>
> Best of luck,
> Mike
>
>
>
> --- On Mon, 11/19/12, Gabriel Johnson <gwjapp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From: Gabriel Johnson <gwjapp at gmail.com>
> Subject: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host
> address", other internet functions work correctly
> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Monday, November 19, 2012, 2:14 PM
>
> Hi All,
>
> We are having a baffling problem with the standard URL function not working
> on one of our machines.
>
> Message Box Example:
>
>    put url "http://www.google.com"
>
> returns empty.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Here are some things we've tried and the results:
>
> 1. Other internet applications run fine on the computer. Firefox/Safari
> load www.google.com just fine
> 2. Older versions of LiveCode, which had previously worked, now fail with
> the url command
> 3. Creating a dummy user account and running LiveCode fresh causes the url
> command to work
> 4. Other LiveCode internet commands/functions work
> fine: hostnametoaddress(), liburl functions
> 5. Zapping the PRAM caused the url function to work one of the times we
> tried it, for a limited period of time.
>
> So, it seems to be something very specific to the url function (at least
> with http requests) on this one user account that is failing. It appears it
> might be something corrupt in the user library. A first thought we had was
> to remove all LiveCode items from the user Library and start from scratch
> on the original user account. However, I'm not sure if we removed
> everything. We removed the "RunRev" folder from Application Support, and
> the following 4 preference files: com.runrev.livecode.plist,
> com.runrev.revinstaller.plist, com.runrev.revolution.plist,
> com.runrev.revolution.plist.saved.
> Are there some other items from the user Library/etc we need to remove to
> completely uninstall LiveCode from the original user account?
>
> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Gabe
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