I have had no luck here either. But, I have not done much testing and
decided not to report as I haven't tried that hard yet. But, my first
impressions are the same as yours.
-Mark
On Tuesday, June 26, 2001, at 02:50 PM, Reed Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Thanks for the response, Scott. I could be doing something totally
> wrong, but I'm running Mac OS X 10.0.4 and Mail.app, OmniWeb, Terminal
> telnetting, etc. all seem to be able to connect just fine. In MetaCard
> for OS X, I launched it and, in the message box typed:
>
> answer url "http://www.yahoo.com/";
>
> I waited, grabbed a drink, and 5 minutes later still had nothing. So I
> command-.'ed out, and got a blank answer dialog. Not surprising. I then
> tried to open a new stack and created a button with the same script as
> above. Nothing. I also tried it as:
>
> start using "LibURL"
> answer url "http://www.yahoo.com/";
>
> but still no luck. So I tried to use the load command:
>
> on mouseUp
> load url "http://www.yahoo.com/"; with "lDone"
> send "statRep" to me
> end mouseUp
>
> on statRep
> if urlStatus("http://www.yahoo.com/";) is not "cached" then
> put urlStatus("http://www.yahoo.com/";) into fld 1
> send "statRep to me in 30 milliseconds
> end if
> end statRep
>
> on lDone s
> answer url s
> unload url s
> end lDone
>
> And all field 1 ever said was: "requested". I feel like nobody else is
> having these problems, and I'm worried I'm missing a crucial step. I
> tried all of the above with different URLs, and with and without
> preceding the requests with: start using "LibURL" (which should be by
> default, loaded?)
>
> This is using 2.4B2 for Mac OS X, tried on an iMac 233, a B&W G3/450,
> and a PowerBook G3/266. And I tried with 2 different ISPs, and one
> direct LAN connection..
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong, or if there is a bug in MC2.4b2? I'll
> forward some scripts to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as well. Are other people on
> this list finding success with internet usage using MC under Mac OS X?
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