Recent patches introduced a regression error

[Paul Millar]

On 1 Aug 2002, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Note that the wininet tests try to connect to www.winehq.com, so the
> failure could be caused by a network connectivity problem (of course
> it may also be a bug in our code).

Actually, the networking turned out to be the problem after all. Web
proxies here at Glasgow Uni are a little complex (and IMO sub-optimal).  
The problem was with a machine Comp.Serv. forgot to reboot after a UPS
died (killed by lightning). This lead to the situation where I could see
www.winehq.com, but quisquiliae couldn't.

The weird thing is that the calls to InternetConnectA() and
HttpOpenRequestA() in dlls/wininet/tests/http.c succeeded despite the
connection failing. Is this correct? The MSDN entries ([1] and [2])
suggest that they should fail if the connection cannot be made, but the
code says otherwise ...

Cheers,

Paul.

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/wininet/reference/functions/internetconnect.asp
[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/networking/wininet/reference/functions/httpopenrequest.asp

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Paul Millar