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

[Gabriel Johnson]

Thanks, yeah- resetAll unfortunately doesn't fix it.

Gabe



On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Terry Judd <terry.judd at unimelb.edu.au>wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
>
>
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