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Re: www131 : Resolving Host

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From: Simon King
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 1996 00:00
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 In article <835649350_OASIS_@whalley.demon.co.uk>
  john@whalley.demon.co.uk (John Whalley) said:-

> In article <835585246_OASIS_@kingres.demon.co.uk>
>  Simon@kingres.demon.co.uk (Simon King) said:-
>
>>Does anyone know why I can not get www131 to get past the 'Resolving Host'
>>message when I enter a valid www address ?  I've got cab.ovl in the cab
>If it's been happening this weekend then I had the same problem, and 
>after much fiddling about found it was a problem I'd had with WWW130, 
>had solved by the kind people here in d.i.s.a, and forgot to sort out 
>from the word go with WWW131.
>
>Namely, Demon's proxy-server, which seems to be more trouble than it's 
>worth. Get rid of it by editing your DEFAULT.CFG: comment out the 
>following lines:
>
>HTTP_PROXY      = www-cache.demon.co.uk
>HTTP_PROXY_PORT = 8080
>
>by bunging a hash at the start of each one:
>
>#HTTP_PROXY      = www-cache.demon.co.uk
>#HTTP_PROXY_PORT = 8080

Tried the above but now it just says 'Resolving Host' and then seems to lock up.
 i.e. I won't abort it if I press ESC.

Should I need any additional serial port routine progs running ?

>
>and you'll find CAB/STiK just connects direct.

If only it would !
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From: Simon@kingres.demon.co.uk (Simon King)
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Date: 1996/06/25
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