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Re: internet connection

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• Subject: [mg79103] Re: [mg79065] internet connection
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
• References: <200707170727.DAA27193@smc.vnet.net>
• Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

First, can you access an web page on that server by a hyperlink within 
Mathematica?

Could this be some permissions or setting on your server affecting this? 
  (As I recall, servers have to be configured explicitly to allow URL 
access to individual files rather

Try opening a URL that does work for somebody else, e.g.:

   Import["http://www.math.umass.edu/~murray/images/sliders.png";]

I just tried that under Mathematica 5.2 on my Windows XP system, and it 
works fine.

If you have some software firewall, e.g., ZoneAlarm (recommended!), 
that potentially could block it, you ought to at least get a pop-up warning.

Arkadiusz.Majka at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I want to download some data from a server using
> 
> Import["http://myServer/data.txt";]
> 
> and I get the message
> 
> FetchURL::conopen: The connection to
> http://myServer/data.txt cannot be opened.
> 
> 
> Do you know how to force Mathematica/Windows/FireWall/Whatever to open
> the connection
> 
> I have Windows XP and MAthematica 5.2

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Murray Eisenberg                     murray at math.umass.edu
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