From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-08-20T13:22:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Why is my http call failing?

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> 
>     I have seen this same issue on windows before. ZoneAlarm interferes  
> with ruby's socket access. You need to uninstall ZoneAlarm and it  will 
> work fine. Just disabling Zone Alarm will not work , you have to  
> completely uninstall it.

Interesting. I have ZA installed on two different WinXP boxen, and a 
now-gone Win2k box, and never had an issue with Ruby getting out to the 
Internet.

However, a recent version of ZA was annoying in one way or another, so I 
rolled back to a previous version.  So perhaps the more current versions 
are  Ruby-hostile,  but it's never been an issue for me.


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James Britt

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