[OT] Invalid host address

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Mon Mar 2 23:31:32 EST 2015 

Oh, and before anyone goes "wow, your client is Amazon"...no, I just 
forgot to take out that last statement. I'd originally typed that the 
URLs were using AWS but after double-checking I saw that the domain was 
my client's, not Amazon's (for a while we were directly contacting the 
AWS servers during testings, but no longer.) I should have deleted that 
last line of my message.

On 3/2/2015 10:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 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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