tsNet or not tsNet?

[Bob Sneidar]

I am getting the impression that any calls to network functions in your app will cause tsNet to be included (assuming you have auto detect on). I could be wrong. 

> On Mar 5, 2018, at 02:18 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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> I’ve been executing this line of script in an app made on a Mac with LC 9.0.0 dp11
> get URL “http://www.myserver.com/mytextfile <http://www.myserver.com/mytextfile>.txt
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> It works fine, but I also wanted to detect what happens when the connection can't be established, so I made the command fail by switching off internet access on my machine. I got an error in ‘the result’, as expected. Or at least I got one when the line was executed in the IDE, and this was a tsNet error. As I had not initialised tsNet in my script - according to the dictionary, this **must** be done before tsNet functions are used - I concluded that the IDE had done it for me.
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> Fair enough, but I then reasoned that if I wanted to see the same kind of explicit error messages in my standalone, I would have to include a call to tsNetInit in my script. However, I created a little test app which **doesn’t** make any tsNet calls, certainly not initialising the package, but I still get a tsNet style error, e.g.
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>> tsneterr: (6) Could not resolve host: www.myserver.com <http://www.myserver.com/>
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> So, what’s going on? Is tsNet now always included in a standalone, and if so, how does it get initialised?
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> Puzzled, not for the first time.
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> Graham
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