Re: Online instance validation - just not working

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Dave Evans writes:

> Hi - the problem, as you diagnosed, was that my web server was
> inaccessible outside the firewall.  Sorry for being so foolish
> that I didn't think of it - I don't usually tell anyone outside
> my organization to use 9204, so I didn't think of it.
>
> View source showed an empty file.  Not to excuse my foolishness in
> any way, but it might be more helpful if your server produced a
> message like "address could not be reached" in the eveny it's GET
> times out.

The failure in such cases has been made a bit more graceful, I hope
you find it an improvement.

Sorry for the slow reply, I've been on holiday.

ht
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