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Re: [ECS] Remote IE5 access problem Mark Gilmore Wed, 19 Apr 2000 17:43:47 -0400

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When the ECS web server receives a request for a Group,
it creates/returns a web page with an ECSIO applet having
the appropriate "ECS_HOST" parameter (d.d.d.d) and "ECS_PORT"
parameter (d). When the applet is activiated, it uses these
parameter settings when calling socket().
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026
Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST


Ingo Pakleppa wrote:
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> At 05:16 PM 4/19/00 -0400, Mark Gilmore wrote:
> >Using this in HOSTS (NO port), the applets would not load:
> >         127.0.0.1       localhost
> >         216.80.146.195  mark
> 
> What URL are you using? http://mark:3000/somethingorother.html?
> 
> >Using this (WITH port), the applets loaded, but the
> >original failure returned:
> >         127.0.0.1       localhost
> >         216.80.146.195:3000  mark
> 
> This is an illegal syntax. The HOSTS file is about IP addresses and good
> for all ports. You can't specify just one port. Thus, this is as if the
> line wasn't there at all.
> 
> >I'm quite lost at this point.
> >I don't understand why NS is happy, while IE5 is not.
> >--
> >Mark Gilmore
> >Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> >http://www.usit.com/omnip
> >423-745-0026
> >Hours: Mon-Sat, 9AM-8PM/EST

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