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
> 

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