Thanks, yeah- resetAll unfortunately doesn't fix it. Gabe
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Terry Judd <terry.j...@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 <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 > > Dr Terry Judd > Senior Lecturer in Medical Education > Medical Eduction Unit > Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences > The University of Melbourne > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
