Re: ASYNC SOCKETS
On 9 May 2002, at 17:44, Robsz2 at aol.com wrote:
>
> Well I do not have a firewall on my machine and i could not connect to
> "localhost" or "127.0.0.1" using winsock on port 80. I keep getting a 404
> server not found message. I have it set up so it sends out a web page to the
> incoming connections. It has only work on the IP address it finds. I do not
> know of any errors on my machine exept that it is very slow. Maybe its a
> proxy
> thing? I do not have a proxy configured but i think AOL uses them? Or maybe
> it
> a cache thing. I dont know. Maybe ill clear my TEMP and give it another try
> one of these days.
OOOOOHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh AOHell, that could be the problem. AOL sets
up a vpn on your puter, connecting *only* to their servers. Try NOT using the
browser that came with AOL, and check the advanced settings in the
connections for the original MS browser that came with your windows. Also,
verify that you have this line in the hosts file in the windows directory (the
hosts file has no .extension) :
127.0.0.1 localhost
AOL does use proxies, but they don't live on your computer, they live on
AOL's machines, to "compress" all the isps they own across the world into a
smaller set of ip addresses. Typically, your real ip as seen by the dialup is
proxied twice before it reaches the real internet, so the ip you are seen with
now may be used by someone in another country tomorrow, at the AOL's
server BOFH's pleasure.
Kat
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