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 <mikek...@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 <gwj...@gmail.com> wrote: > > From: Gabriel Johnson <gwj...@gmail.com> > Subject: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host > address", other internet functions work correctly > To: use-livecode@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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
