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

[Terry Judd]

Have you tried calling resetAll?

Terry...

On 20/11/2012, at 09:39 AM, Gabriel Johnson wrote:

> 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

Dr Terry Judd
Senior Lecturer in Medical Education
Medical Eduction Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne