Problem with proxy server?

b.sims · Post by **b.sims** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 6:05 am

My webinator seems unable to access the internet. I gave it a list of ten sites to crawl. Each returns the error:

The link : http://www.thesite.org
Had this error: Can't send data to www.thesite.org:80

Running geturl against the sites gives:

000 connect: WSAETIMEDOUT - attempt to connect
connection in the function: ezclientsock
Can't connect(1) to www.thesite.ch:80 : No error

The sites can be accessed through IE5 normally.

Our internet connection is through a proxy server which is configured automatically from a perl script. Is there anything I need to do to Texis to get it round the proxy?

Thanks,

Post by **Kai** » Fri Apr 19, 2002 10:22 am

Under All Walk Settings, enter the URL (not just hostname) to your proxy server. You'll need to find out what that hostname/port is. Then Webinator will access the web through that proxy.

b.sims · Post by **b.sims** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 11:26 am

Thanks, that makes webinator work. Is there any other way of telling Texis to use the proxy? I suppose that Texis not being able to access the internet is the reason that it is throwing up license server errors and I cannot use geturl.

I have the LAN setting for internet access manually set, specifying port and ip address for proxy. I can browse normally.

Post by **mark** » Mon Apr 22, 2002 12:23 pm

Free webinator must be able to contact the license server directly, no proxy. Paid webinator and texis do not need to contact the license server. So even if it can't it should not stop working as long as your license from your distribution media is installed. "texis -version" will tell you whether you're running free or not. "texis -license" will give more details.