Thanks Bill, I have added a timeout to the wget and curl calls that should allow the function to complete even with errors in the user's proxy configuration. Committed to SVN.
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 6:16 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > Ric, > > Eric also pointed out this to me and a patch to use another website has > been already commited to svn repo. However I cannot test the proxy related > problem, if you can fix this issue, that will be great. > >> Recently I've had problems starting JHS. Essentially when starting >> init_jhs_ the system would appear to hang. >> When starting from a Linux terminal,( start jconsole, load >> 'ide/jhs/core' and then init_jhs_ '' ) the J console session appeared >> to hang. If I used Ctrl+C things would then start as normal. >> >> I finally took some time to track down the problem and it appears to >> be a problem in getexternalip_jhs_ that tries to use wget to access >> the website http://www.check-ip.eu. >> The issue is that this website doesn't appear to exist any longer. >> >> Any suggestions for alternative sites or approaches to do the same thing? > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
