From: Ken Kaplan <kkaplan@...>
Date: 2005-07-11T10:20:14+09:00
Subject: Re: HTTP.get problem

Problem fixed!

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> I think you guys are having the same problem with windows and zone
> alarm that some people were having on the rails list. Zone alarm
> keeps ruby from working with sockets correctly. The only way they
> fixed this was by uninstalling zone alarm. Just turning it off didn't
> work but uninstalling it let ruby have its sockets back.
>
> -Ezra

Bingo. I uninstalled ZoneAlarm and now I can HTTP#put to my heart's content.
I can also run gem --remote.

daz wrote:
> Which Windows and ZA do you have ?

I've got winxp sp2 with all the latest updates, and ZoneAlarm Suite 5-5-094,
with all their latest updates. The other computer that didn't have this
problem had the same winxp and ZoneAlarm updates, except that I had the paid
version and he had the free version.

I'll be trying it again with the free version, and contacting ZoneAlarm for
a workaround. I'll post again to this thread if I find one.

Thanks, folks.

Ken