[OT] Invalid host address
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Mar 2 23:26:49 EST 2015
The "invalid" host URL is the same one all other users are contacting
and is the domain of my client. Only an occasional user is getting this
error when contacting the same URL(s), it works okay for almost everyone.
I'm pretty sure it's a machine-based issue, and my puny knowledge base
points to some kind of system setup. I'd guess it's a wonky hosts file
from what little I know about it, but it seems like his browser ought to
fail too in that case. Or maybe it just doesn't like Amazon.
On 3/2/2015 9:15 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote:
> Jacque
>
> Unfortunately, I’m probably almost as much out of my depth as you :-(
>
> No, localhost shouldn’t matter if the app is trying to connect to a remote server. I don’t think that LiveCode needs to know about ipv6 either (or only at a very low level). My suggestion was based on ipv6 resolving localhost differently from ipv4.
>
> Does the error message give the hostname that was considered to be an “invalid host address”?
>
> Regards
>
> Peter
>
>
>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 10:56, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Peter, but I'm afraid you're speaking Greek to me. Would localhost matter if the app is trying to connect to a remote server?
>>
>> Does LC need to know about ipv6 or is that handled at the OS level? Sorry to be so uninformed, I'm out of my depth here.
>>
>> On 3/2/2015 8:42 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote:
>>> Jacque
>>>
>>> I don’t know if this will help but I believe host can get converted to ::1 under ipv6. I know that I used to have an issue on my OS X a few versions ago and had to use 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost in URLs.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>> Peter
>>>
>>>> On 3 Mar 2015, at 10:21, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm not sure about the other users but the latest one is on OS X. Could this affect Macs too?
>>>>
>>>> On 3/2/2015 8:04 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
>>>>> OH, thought just occurred to me, based on something that happened in
>>>>> another thread. If they're on windows, and had a proxy set up at some
>>>>> point, then the proxy was disabled.. The information about the proxy still
>>>>> shows up greyed in the settings. And it seems that LC decides the proxy is
>>>>> still active even though it isn't. The browser would work, because it
>>>>> knows the proxy has been disabled. The solution, is to clear the proxy
>>>>> information from the settings, even though the proxy settings are
>>>>> technically already disabled.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> The hosts file can be set up to provide specific name to ip address
>>>>>> mappings. 99.9% of the time its not used, and if it is, its often a
>>>>>> hijack. Along with the hijack thing, its also possible that a proxy has
>>>>>> been set up unbeknownst to the user, and its munging something as it
>>>>>> decides where they want to direct the user, rather than where the user
>>>>>> actually wants to go.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can you post some of the gibberish?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:53 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Out of thousands of users, occasionally one can't connect and repeatedly
>>>>>>> gets an invalid host address error. What causes those? All users are
>>>>>>> sending to the same server at the same domain. Naturally they all say it's
>>>>>>> only our app and never happens in a browser.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Everything I've found about it is mostly gibberish to me. Is this
>>>>>>> something to do with the hosts file on the computer? The latest report says
>>>>>>> it happens on different networks (home and school) so I assume it's
>>>>>>> specific to his machine.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>>>>>>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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