Derek Broughton <derek 'at' pointerstop.ca> writes: > I'm running Validator 1.3.1, Apache 2.0.52, Tomcat 4.1.30, Struts 1.1 on a > Debian Linux system. When connected to the net, Tomcat starts fine. When > unconnected, I get the following message in catalina*.log. Why on earth does > Validator need to reach the web? In the first place, my Tomcat is local and
Commons-validator might be trying to download the DTD specified in the DOCTYPE declaration of your validation XML document. java.net.SocketException should really display the details about where it fails to connect. We've had a similar problem with a proprietary software we use here, when the application was trying to connect to `hostname` instead of localhost for something, and the /etc/hosts configuration was incorrect. It took days both because the software was proprietary and java.net.SocketException was just saying "Connection timeout". > I don't need to go to the web, but I really, really, hate apps that want to > make connections I don't know about. Is there something I can do to make The good thing about free software and java backtraces is that you can track down what's going on and even possibly hack/debug the origin of your problem. > Validator work when I'm unconnected, or must I wrote my own validations? You could maybe try to supply a local file as the DTD of your validation file, and see if that black magic sorts out your problem? In any case, if you're paranoid about connections behind your back, you can log every connection attempt with an appropriate setting of netfilter in your kernel. -- Guillaume Cottenceau --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
