Christian Biesinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> Holden Caulfield wrote: >> When I try to log into Yahoo, on submission of usr/pwd, I get >> an "Unknown socket type. Loading aborted" error. > > Install PSM (Personal Security Manager). > > If you're using Mozilla 0.9.7, you can do that by visiting this > url and clicking OK in the install dialog that comes up: > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla/releases/mozilla0.9.7/windows- > xpi/psm.xpi (Software Installation must be enabled, > Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Software Installation). > >> W98SE, Winsock2. I see the two checkboxes for 4 and 5 in >> Preferences, default 5. > > What are you talking about? > Are you referring to SOCKS? This is a kind of Proxy server, > where two protocol versions are common - 4 and 5. > > This is not really related to Winsock. Gotcha. That was the only kind of "sock" that came to mind, when I saw the message. :) I'm not running any kind of SOCKS server, unless that's something that Moz is doing while I'm opening a brew. I *am* set up with Proxomitron on 8080 for HTTP (for IE and Opera), and when I activate that, in Prefs/Advanced/Proxies, the rest of the options light up (i.e., are no longer greyed) and one of the two SOCKS choices must be checked - 4 or 5. It defaults to v5. I don't see any way to run Proxo and *not* have one of the SOCKS proxies ticked. Is this a problem? (I get the stated error message whether I turn on proxies for the sake of Proxo or not.) Or, maybe I should ask, what the heck *is* that error referring, to, then? -- Holden
