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Re: strange behaviour of SOCKET [message #62032 is a reply to message #62029]

Thu, 21 August 2008 00:12

Craig Markwardt
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pgrigis@gmail.com writes:
> Hi folks,
>
> for some mysterious reasons, socket is not working anymore
> for me. I can access files in my own internet domain (i.e.
> harvard.edu)
> but I cannot access files [i.e. readf on the unit given by socket
> hangs]
> outside that domain (using HTTP GET commands).
> I tried spawn, 'wget ...' from the same command line and this can get
> files from everywhere.
> Notice that "socket" itself and printf,unit both work (or at least
> do not give troubles), is only readf,unit that hangs.
>
> So the question is: how is socket different than wget?
> If this is a firewall issue, what settings are causing this?
>
> I know this is not much information to go on, but this issue
> seems pretty hard to track down, so I just though I could ask
> here before trying more desperate measures...

Sounds like maybe you are behind a web proxy, but I don't know how to
work around it. :-S

Craig

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