On Tuesday 03 Apr 2012 20:57:08 Ximin Luo wrote:
> On 03/04/12 19:57, Matthew Toseland wrote:
> > Nextgens is convinced that many of the problems users have installing on
> > Windows are due to firewalls blocking the localhost connection between the
> > wrapper binary and the JVM running Freenet. The usual solution proposed is
> > to split up freenet-ext.jar, which infinity0 has been working on. Can we do
> > a quick fix though? Just introduce the new wrapper jar on the classpath in
> > new installs, so that it overrides the wrapper classes in freenet-ext.jar?
> > The main difficulty appears to be update.cmd - on Windows, it will clobber
> > wrapper.conf in some circumstances, in which case it could revert it to a
> > version without the new wrapper.jar and thus break it.
> > 
> > See bug: https://bugs.freenetproject.org/view.php?id=4075
> 
> How does splitting up freenet-ext.jar help with "not creating a localhost 
> socket"?
> 
> i.e. can you explain the solution in more detail.

Wrapper 3.4 allows you to use a named pipe instead, from a config option in 
wrapper.conf. This avoids firewall issues and so hopefully results in a more 
reliable setup on Windows.
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