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sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu (Jeff Sweeney) writes:
>
>I tried to install the World Wide Web browser called 'w3'. This
>browser is an emacs-mode that is enabled by a number of emacs-lisp
>files. All the w3 files and the 'extra' files mentioned in the
>distribution compiled without error. After compiling and installing,
>I invoked w3 and tried to connect to a URL. w3 loaded without error
>but the connection failed after 5 tries:
>
>-- begin error --
>**************************************
>ERROR - COULD NOT ESTABLISH CONNECTION
>**************************************
>
>The browser could not establish a connection to inept.scubed.com:8001.
>
>The server is either down, or the
>URL(http://inept.scubed.com:8001/tax/tax.html) is malformed.
>-- end error --
>
>I know the URL is correct and running since I can reach it using
>xmosaic. I get the same error with other URL.

  Are you by any chance running on a sun?  On some (all?) sun machines
you need to link emacs with -lresolv or it won't be able to contact
your nameserver.  Try getting the URL:

http://192.31.70.208:8001/tax/tax.html

  If this works, you will need to ask your system administrator to
recompile emacs.  If this doesn't work either, check to make sure that
the function open-network-stream is defined... if not, try setting
w3-use-telnet to t, then try fetching the first URL again.

  If that doesn't work, send me mail and I will try to figure out what
is wrong.  You aren't behind a firewall are you?  The next version of
the emacs browser will have much more support for different
gateway/firewall types - am getting started coding it tonight.

>I also get an error on exiting emacs:
>
>Invalid function: (w3-kill-emacs-func)
>
>Any suggestions? I'm using emacs v18.57xx.

   This is a problem with emacs 18 - it expects the kill-emacs-hook to
be a single function, and dies if it is a list of functions, which is
not the standard behavior for run-hooks.  I'll be fixing it soon.

    Hope this helps,
	Bill P.

>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Sweeney <sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu> writes:
In article <1994Mar8.154832.20616@midway.uchicago.edu> sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu (Jeff Sweeney) writes:

 Jeff> The browser could not establish a connection to inept.scubed.com:8001.

 Jeff> The server is either down, or the
 Jeff> URL(http://inept.scubed.com:8001/tax/tax.html) is malformed.
 Jeff> -- end error --

Hmmm...I just tried it and it connected OK. Just did a M-x w3-fetch
http://inept.scubed.com:8001/tax/tax.html and it went just fine.

Don't know why yours didn't work, just letting you know that someone
else could.
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Chris Halverson                      147 Shepherd Labs
Distributed Computing Services       625-1300

In article <WMPERRY.94Mar8214836@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> wmperry@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (William M. Perry) writes:
   sweeney@dionheinz.uchicago.edu (Jeff Sweeney) writes:
   >I invoked w3 and tried to connect to a URL. w3 loaded without error
   >but the connection failed after 5 tries:
     Are you by any chance running on a sun?  On some (all?) sun machines
   you need to link emacs with -lresolv or it won't be able to contact
   your nameserver.  Try getting the URL:

Another work around is to grab the tcp.el from GNUS (or just make sure
it is loaded) and use the tcp program too to define your own
open-network-stream. I've used this technique when I've not had
control over the Emacs binary (eg. Lucid Emacs precompiled binary for
Sun didn't used to be linked with -lresolv)

James.