Holger, I did look into this further and it's apparently communications with proxies web servers at (least) port 8080 that appear to be problematic. I posted a bug report moments ago. Later, <SS> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 05:14:21PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Similarly, I also have been unable to do any networking with the > > 0.10.24.4.2 (Linux x86 glibc 6) and the 0.10.25.3.1 (Win32) REBOL/View > > products myself on a couple of different machines (both with proxy & no > > proxy configs) which run network code with the release versions just fine > > (with the exception of the new tcp interface that I can't get to send or > > receive data connecting even to a telnet port 23 in the manner suggested > > by the Net docs). I haven't yet looked at it hard enough to tell if it's > > successfully opening sockets or not (kinda assumed it was known to be > > broken) but I will now. > > There are no new known problems (known to us, anyway) in the networking > code in any of the experimental versions, with the exception of BeOS. > > The problem with the BeOS version is caused by a bug in BeOS: the apparently > working non-blocking connect() function in BeOS actually has race conditions > that are not reproducable on our machines, but happen for some users. We will > switch back to normal non-blocking connect()s in the next experimental build > (with the unpleasant side effect that you cannot interrupt a connection in > progress with the Escape key -- same behavior as REBOL 2.2 everywhere and > REBOL 2.3 BeOS). > > If you find any other reproducable problems please send reports to helpdesk, > and if possible provide examples we can run on our machines. > > Regarding connections to telnet port 23: this is probably a bad example, > because telnet (and rlogin) are exceptions in that they make use of > "TCP urgent mode", so a fully compliant telnet client cannot be written > in most high-level languages. It requires getting "down and dirty" into > the depths of the TCP C socket API... Try connecting to any other server > (smtp, nntp, http or anything else). > > -- > Holger Kruse > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
