Good point. I mentioned before that I have adopted the method of opening a socket to the host first, checking for errors, before actually trying to send any data. That might be something you want to implement. I put it at the start of a Database Reconnect handler I wrote just for this sort of thing. It has a repeat loop so that the end user can attempt to resolve the condition and then try again, or else cancel. If Cancel is selected, the handler quits the app.
Bob S > On Mar 2, 2015, at 17:58 , Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The hosts file can be set up to provide specific name to ip address > mappings. 99.9% of the time its not used, and if it is, its often a > hijack. Along with the hijack thing, its also possible that a proxy has > been set up unbeknownst to the user, and its munging something as it > decides where they want to direct the user, rather than where the user > actually wants to go. > > Can you post some of the gibberish? > > On Mon, Mar 2, 2015 at 6:53 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > wrote: > >> Out of thousands of users, occasionally one can't connect and repeatedly >> gets an invalid host address error. What causes those? All users are >> sending to the same server at the same domain. Naturally they all say it's >> only our app and never happens in a browser. >> >> Everything I've found about it is mostly gibberish to me. Is this >> something to do with the hosts file on the computer? The latest report says >> it happens on different networks (home and school) so I assume it's >> specific to his machine. >> >> -- >> 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 >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
