[OAI-implementers] Problem connecting to remote sites

[Letts, David]

Thanks for the quick response and information provided. The link to the
article proved extremely helpful. The program now connects succesfully.

Thank you,

David.

-----Original Message-----
From: Leigh Dodds [mailto:ldodds@ingenta.com]
Sent: 15 January 2002 12:29
To: Tim Brody; oai-implementers@oaisrv.nsdl.cornell.edu
Cc: Letts, David
Subject: RE: [OAI-implementers] Problem connecting to remote sites


> It may be that you are sitting behind a firewall, which is crossed using a
> HTTP proxy. Try manually connecting to an external HTTP server using
telnet
> (# telnet servername 80). Also look in your Web browser's connection
> settings. If you are firewalled you will need to implement proxy support
> (basically connect to your proxy and send the same request, and things
> should work).

Proxy problems are a frequent cause of failures to connect from the 
java.net.URL class. Happily however you just need to tell the VM about 
your proxy settings to get this to work transparently.

Here's a javaworld tip that you might find useful:

http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javatips/jw-javatip42.html

Cheers,

L.


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