Hi, I will try to describe problems we encountered in our company. It's not directly related to REBOL, but well, at least partly it is. So, our daughter company is our Inet provider. They are connecting us to external world thru firewall. All I had to do a few days ago, was to set my Netscape' Socks Hosts to some IP address, port 1080. I used the same setting for my REBOL, to be able to dowload websites. Today our provider changed config in some way (upgraded firewall app), and sending, receiving of emails was unfunctional since the change. Even using REBOL. So I typed: trace/net: true and tried to open my mailbox I was surprised, REBOL returned error, stating it can't connect to firewall IP. I thought to myself, - ouch, what does POP protocol have in common with firewall? I returned to Netscape then, and tried to disable my Socks Hosts setting. Huh, it started to work for me, I was immediatelly able to send/receive emails, as few days before, but well, such setting makes web browsing not functional for me, as it needs Socks Host, now being disabled :-) I contacted our Inet admin, and he told me, well, we are trying to run this new thingy (firewall app), and it's fault of your Netscape (ironically), and suggested me to use IE. I told him, IE being better browser than Netscape, still has no reason to be installed on my machine, as I don't support its owner's company, if there is option for me to do so :-) Then I told him - hmm, strange, as it seems to be also REBOL's default way to always check for something at firewall, if such setting is present? So, enough :-) Just a few questions - is REBOL, by default, trying to look for something at firewall, if Socks Hosts setting is present in my %user.r file (in set-net function)? Why it stopped to work? Any missing setting on our firewall? Or? Anyone? :-) "... Yo, Sterling, stop playing with compression" :-))) Thanks, -pekr-
