TSNet error 6

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/1/17 6:18 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
> 
> 
> On 01/09/2017 21:41, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
>>
>> If the web site has a static IP and the Android app uses that instead 
>> of a domain name, will that fix it? The app is communicating with a 
>> database on the web server.
>>
> I think the answer is "it will stop you getting a tsnet error (6)".
> That doesn't mean it will "fix" it. Most likely (as others have said in 
> more detail), it's a result of flaky or intermittent network connection 
> somewhere, making your DNS lookups fail incompletely. Using a static IP 
> will simply mean that no DNS lookup is needed - so your attempt to 
> transfer data will get started and likely fail in some other way because 
> of that flaky connection.
> 
> How (whether) that shows itself to the user is unpredictable :-)

That's a problem, the app needs to be dead reliable. But see my other 
note about https connections. Those appear to have something to do with 
the problem, but my tester won't get back to the coffee house for a 
couple of days to find out for sure.

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