Thanks, Mark .. but "the result" returns NOTHING in either a distorted Google or local call.. BOTH of which are, indeed, DNS "errors" not strictly "socket" errors... thanks for that insight!
I'll go back to using tsnet for this other project. I can time it out and use send" a dummy request to test the connection. Cheers! Douglas Ruisaard Trilogy Software (250) 573-3935 > From: Mark Wieder <ahsoftw...@sonic.net> > To: Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Subject: Re: Socket questions > Message-ID: <ad830e5f-3eb9-587e-8147-cc7cf8954...@sonic.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 08/18/2018 01:38 PM, Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode wrote: > > > However, if I substitute "www.googleXXX.com:80" as the socket ID (or > > distort *my* ESP8266 ID to a > non-existent one), I would have expected some sort of error message... > trapped by the "socketError" > handler ... but I get nothing. > > That's a dns lookup failure, which won't get as far as a socketError > message. What you should get instead is a non-empty result message from > the openSocket command. I can't comment on tsNet, but libUrl has never > to my recollection actually done this correctly. > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.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
