Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!scea!greg_labrec@interactive.sony.com From: "Michael Hough" Newsgroups: scea.yaroze.freetalk Subject: Re: Chat Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:52:19 -0800 Organization: SCEA News Server Lines: 33 Message-ID: <6a6r1h$8n11@scea> References: <34c6b419.40663706@205.149.189.29> NNTP-Posting-Host: delirium.Stanford.EDU X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Mario Perdue wrote in message <34c6b419.40663706@205.149.189.29>... >I just had a problem that sounds like the one several of you have >reported. I went to the auditorium, and nothing happened. I cleared my >memory cache and disk cache in Netscape and went back to the >auditorium. Everything worked fine after the 500+ download completed. > >Mario Cool! Unfortunately, that hasn't been my experience; I just got Netscape 3, thinking perhaps my IE4 was somehow barfing--but no amount of reloading and cache clearing sems to work. It loads the familiar box with buttons, but in the middle is a white rectangle; I don't get any names or prompts or anything. On the status bar, though, it says "Connect: Contacting host: www.scea.sony.com: 8057..." and then after a while it stops. My Java Console, however, is saying the following: ---- PlaceWare client 1.1b3 connecting to www.scea.sony.com:8057 Direct connection failed (java.net.SocketException: No error), falling back to HTTP Error opening http response: java.io.IOException: There was no response. The server could be down or is not responding. If you are unable to connect again later, contact the server's administrator. ---- Could it be that the server is somehow failing or misconfigured? mike