solved it myself (I just had to try a little harder ...): I made two changes; which of the two solved it I don't know and I am too lazy to find out:
(1) moved the http_proxy = ... line from the database's plucker.ini to the main plucker.ini (2) changed the proxy line to http_proxy = http://my_proxys_name:8080. In my previous try I had omitted the "http://"; part of it. hope that helps others too. Thanks. - Matthias PS: Maybe this should be included in the FAQ ? -----Original Message----- From: Rasch, Matthias Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 9:55 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: beginners problem (already asked once by sb else, but not answere d ...) Hi, I just installed plucker on a Windows NT machine (no, I HAVE to use this 'OS' :( ). It syncs the home.html file fine, it even follows ftp:// URLs and adds those files. But unfortunately it somehow cannot handle any http:// urls... All I get is Processing http://slashdot.org/palm. 1 collected, 5 still to do Retrieved failed: 404 -- [Errno url error] unknown url type: 'http' no matter what URL I use, it always fails with that error message. Quite useless without http isn't it ? I installed plucker 1.1.13 which comes with python 1.5.2, by simply running the installer Plucker-1.1.13.exe. - Matthias
