Not necessarily. There may be a global hosts file, as well as a local one for the account. But when troubleshooting, an alternative to divide and conquer is do the simple stuff first. Disable the AV temporarily and see if the problem persists. If a new profile solves the problem, that means there is something specific to the account that is a problem. Are both accounts Administrator accounts? If the initial one is not, start down that path. Make it an administrator account and see if things change.
Would this be Windows Vista or Win7? If so, you may want to check to see if Livecode has permission through your AV software to access the internet. It's all guessing though without having the system in front of me. Bob On Nov 19, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Gabriel Johnson wrote: > 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 > <[email protected]>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 | [email protected] >> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com >> >> >> ______________________________**_________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> 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 > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
