Forums Scripts & Popups Very, very weird problem.

Okay, here's the gist of this. I wrote a script for a friend of mine's bot which(using sockets) runs a webpage. The webpage accepts the stats provided to it and dumps them in a DB. The server-side page works fine. The socket part works fine on my machine. When on his machine, however, it does not work at all. He is on XP, but this is not an issue as another of my friend's is able to run the script on XP.

Just to outlaw a couple of problems I had him try some things, I had him manually type the socket commands to do the page, and it connects but does not execute the page. I know this because the server does not automatically close the socket after he has typed the command.

I also made another script and had him connect to my machine and attempt to send data -- this worked perfectly as well.

The problem is not in any firewall software, as he has it all disabled. I can't think of any reason for this weird occurance, and any ideas from any of you would be greatly appreciated.

- Tom

what about the ISP's firewall

Is that really a possibility? It doesn't make any sense -- if the ISP blocked that connection it would have to block the connection from his browser when trying to view websites normally.

well i cant send DCC's but i can recive DCC's because of my ISP's firewall
i really think it is a posibility in this case

you might want to call them

What I'm saying, though, is that the script uses port 80 to connect to the web page as it normally would. There is no way the ISP would disallow this, as it would make it so he could not surf the web at all.

but hes sending the file to the webpage using mirc isnt he?
you usally dont do that

He's not sending a file, he's just executing a page. It's something like:

http://blahblah/stats.php?info=infohere

Just like you would do in your browser -- I should note that it does work if I have him manually type the URL into his browser.

im not sure in that case.
can i get the code and try?

if you cant send a dcc you should look into your connection properties and turn off the Internet Connection Firewall assuming you are running windows

iv tryed everything mirc help said to do.

more than likely its not a mirc problem its built in to windows when you set up your connection it is turned on by default if you do turn it off i recomend doing it while not connected to the internet

i dont know how to change that setting
im using roadrunner

if your not sure how to do it you might want to leave it alone however if you just dont know where it is assuming your connection is in the network connections folder you would go to
start
programs
accessories
communications
network connections
once in the network connections folder you right click on your connection icon and go to properties once there you go to advanced and you should see the option i am refering to

i dont have network connections