Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: proxy baffement Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2011 03:12:33 -0800 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: Z2l1DcCELS0rATq8NqV4Sw.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:10038 On 18 Nov 2011 08:11:30 GMT, Andreas Leitgeb wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >Cannot reproduce that with opera on my machine. (and perhaps the >opera-people weren't able, either.) Perhaps you use network-drives >mounted locally? Or an over-eager virus-scanner, that intercepts >local file reads? Or such without the "-scanner"... In trying to track this down I turned off dynamic virus checking, Windows index, Copernic index. I have most of the accelerators, e.g. Open Office that load at boot time turned off. This proxy thing looks like the best lead so far since it is in there without my permission. The was another anomaly than seems to have gone away. Timeouts in my Java code HTTP Get code sometimes would not time out. They just sat there forever. Maybe it is time for another Windows 7 install to scape off the barnacles. Where does your father keep his barnacles? ~ One of Charles Darwin’s children to a school friend. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com I can't come to bed just yet. Somebody is wrong on the Internet.