John: To my knowledge, "<proxy>" is not set up to work yet. This may be THE problem. If you can, try it without using proxies and this <proxy> element.
-Norman Tuttle [EMAIL PROTECTED] (OpenDemand Systems developer) Not an original developer of Flood but have been using & modifying, for our own application, for almost a year now. On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, John Gray wrote: > I've installed Flood 0.4 per the instructions on the Apache web site. > The build seemed to go ok without any problems, but each time I try > > % ./flood examples/round-robin.xml > foo.out > > it fails with the error > > open request failed (http://search.apache.org/index.cgi). > Error running farmer 'Joe': Error string not specified yet. > > I do need to use a proxy, so I've added the line > > <proxy>http://neptune:80</proxy> > > which is the address used in other applications (e.g. firebird) that > need to use the proxy. I've tried adding this line in different places > within the <profile> section; I've also tried adding it in different > places within the <urllist> or even just under the <flood> root level. > Each time I get exactly the same error above, repeated four times. > > Any suggestions? > > - john >
