Thanks for the response. I'm not sure that the hosts file would affect this, because setting up a new user account fixes the problem. (And the hosts file is independent of the user account, right?)
Also, the firewall is not set up. Or at least it has never been manually set up and it isn't showing as active. Gabe On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:13 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com>wrote: > On 11/19/12 2:14 PM, Gabriel Johnson wrote: > > 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. >> > ... > > 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? >> > > It works okay for me, so I agree it's probably something specific to that > computer. Does it have a custom hosts file? Is the firewall set up to allow > LiveCode requests? > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > ______________________________**_________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode<http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
