On 26 Jan 2006 at 20:09, Jim Dykes wrote:

> When I opened the message, I found that Bernie Cosell had written:
> 
> > No, but for me, I found it was possible to get PopFile hung up (in my 
> > case, a flaky dialup line would nail it if I lost my connection at a 
> > touchy place in the POP3 exchange).  Easily fixed: ctrl-alt-del and kill 
> > the process from the task manager and restart it.
> 
> Problem is I can't acces the PopFile interface to see what's there 
> and if the messages are being classified correctly.  

When it isn't answering its UI, it isn't running.  Just kill it and 
restart it.

> I get "connection refused".  Well, the connection is my own 
> computer.  So it must be an "inside job" <smile>.

Correct -- it is running a mini-web-server listening on a local socket 
and if it gets hung/confused, it stops listening and at that point your 
browser can't connect.

> Any ideas about why I can't even access "local host"?

You can -- what you're not understanding is that with TPC you don't 
access a 'host' but always a "host/port" pair.  In order to be able to 
connect, the particular host must have a server listening on the specific 
port you're trying to connect to.  In my case, for example, I moved 
popfile to port 9000, so I connect to "localhost:9000".  You probably 
connect to "localhost:8080".  In either case, the error message isn't 
telling you that the *HOST* has a problem, but only that you can't 
connect the particular _port_ you're trying to connect to.

  /Bernie\

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