TSNet error 6

[J. Landman Gay]

On 9/3/17 2:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
> On 9/2/17 8:39 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
>> I would zero in on the https thing.
> 
> I found this on stackOverflow 
> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1341644/curl-and-https-cannot-resolve-host>: 
> 
> 
> ***
> I found that CURL can decide to use IPv6, in which case it tries to 
> resolve but doesn't get an IPv6 answer (or something to that effect) and 
> times out.
> 
> You can try the command line switch -4 to test this out.
> 
> In PHP, you can configure this line by setting this:
> 
> curl_setopt($_h, CURLOPT_IPRESOLVE, CURL_IPRESOLVE_V4 );
> ***
> 
> Several people in that thread report the problem started suddenly in 
> March of this year. Could this be related?
> 
> Charles W: does TSNet add an IPv4 option to https requests?
> 


And more: <https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eglibc/+bug/1674532>

A regression bug in Ubuntu in a March release which has been fixed, but 
not every server has been updated. I'm not sure there's much us peons 
can do about that, but hoping Charles knows.

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