I use the HTTP package within Rivet to make outside requests all the time. Not sure what could be causing the problem. Try without the timeout and just see how long it takes to come back. The problem with the timeout feature of the http package is that it times out even if the request comes back and is delivering data.
Also, -validate sends a HEAD request, which can actually be disabled on the web server. Not sure what kind of response you would get back in that case, but you might try just doing a regular request with no timeout from within Rivet to see what you get back. Damon On May 10, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Harald Oehlmann <harald.oehlm...@elmicron.de> wrote: > I am trying to verify some links of a form entered by a user by: > > package require http > set requestHandle [::http::geturl $urlIn -validate 1 -timeout 5000] > > Outside of a rivet script, this works well. > Inside a rivet script, I always run into the timeout. > > Is the tclsh interpreter inside rivet not allowed to use sockets to call > out of the machine ? > > This is CentOS 6.2 64 bit with recent Rivet and tcl8.6.0. > > I have activated SE Linux but there are no warnings within the log, so > there should be no issue with that. > > Thank you for any idea, > Harald > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: rivet-dev-unsubscr...@tcl.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: rivet-dev-h...@tcl.apache.org
