Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

Paul Dupuis wrote: > On 5/5/2017 10:29 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> Paul Dupuis wrote: >> >> > Outbound standard http connections on port 80 should NOT be block - >> > BY DEFAULT - but I just ran into a customer at a commercial >> > research site where the company block ALL

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

On 5/5/2017 10:29 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > Paul Dupuis wrote: > > > Outbound standard http connections on port 80 should NOT be block - > > BY DEFAULT - but I just ran into a customer at a commercial research > > site where the company block ALL internet connections except

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

Thank you all; this gives me a start! Peter > On May 5, 2017, at 8:02 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode > wrote: > > On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:06 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> >> I have a user who seems to

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:06 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I have a user who seems to have a good Internet connection, but my > Livecode application can’t connect to a remote server using http. > > He’s on Windows. Is it possible that some virus

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

Paul Dupuis wrote: > Outbound standard http connections on port 80 should NOT be block - > BY DEFAULT - but I just ran into a customer at a commercial research > site where the company block ALL internet connections except those > to pre-approved web sites, so some places have really extreme >

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

It seems that your application is blocked by a firewall. Either the Windows firewall or maybe a 3rd party security software. But it is unlikely that the security software just blocks your app w/o having asked at least once if the user wants to allow outgoing connections for that app. Some

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

I should have added that WHEN windows firewall does block something, a message typically appears warning the user, so if that is what is happening, your user should be seeing some sort of error message from Windows. On 5/5/2017 7:03 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: > I am not sure what

Re: http calls blocked by virus protection?

I am not sure what sort of connection you are doing to your server, but both OSX's Firewall and Windows Firewall will try to block *incoming* connections to an app (for example, if you have your app listening for an incoming connection using the 'accept' command. Outbound standard http connections

http calls blocked by virus protection?

Hi, I have a user who seems to have a good Internet connection, but my Livecode application can’t connect to a remote server using http. He’s on Windows. Is it possible that some virus protection software blocks such connections? He’s an older user, far away, and I really don’t know what he