From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2005-08-13T02:15:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems with Net::HTTP.get

Ryan Leavengood wrote:
> Marek Kubica said:
> 
>>Many thanks Ryan, with the firewall uninstalled it works without problems.
>>
>>Let's have a look at the bugs of other firewalls ;)
> 
> 
> No problem, I'm glad I could help.
> 
> It is a real shame that firewall software can have this affect, since it
> is an important piece of software to have these days (especially on a
> Windows machine.)
> 
> I can only hope that ZoneAlarm and Panda are the only ones with this
> problem, and other firewalls can coexist with Ruby. Does anyone have a
> list of firewall software that DO work with Ruby? Or rather, who has a
> firewall installed and Ruby sockets are still working?

I have ZoneAlarm freebie version on multiple machines, a mix of Win2k 
and WinXP, and have never had an issue with Ruby Net access.

James

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