HTML Validator under CrossOver (Wine) on Mac

[rjkantor]

I am trying to understand why I can't get the check for upgrades to work but the regular website lookup and validation works. So I know I have connectivity to the internet. Is there any service that is needed that would need to be installed to support the check for upgrades feature?

Thanks,
Rob

[Albert Wiersch]

Hi Rob,

The first thing that comes to mind is that something is blocking CSE HTML Validator from the Internet. Can you use the File->Open from the Web option?

[rjkantor]

Albert -

File| Open from the web works fine. That is what is confusing to me. Not sure what is happening that this check fails.

I tried turning off the OS X firewall, that did not make a difference.

Rob

[Albert Wiersch]

Albert -

File| Open from the web works fine. That is what is confusing to me. Not sure what is happening that this check fails.

I tried turning off the OS X firewall, that did not make a difference.

Rob

Rob,

Interesting... can you open an https link too? CSE HTML Validator uses https for the update check.

[rjkantor]

Yes, https:// seems to have a problem in resolving. It starts, but just stalls out and I ended up cancelling the request. He is what is displayed in the window. Is there anything I would need to add to enable secure https connections?

Proxy> No proxy being used
Command> GET / HTTP/1.0
Command> Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*
Command> User-Agent: CSE HTML Validator Standard (http://www.htmlvalidator.com/)
Command> Host: www.hrpassport.com:443
Command>
Header> HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Header> Content-Length: 3979
Header> Content-Type: text/html
Header> Content-Location: http://www.hrpassport.com:443/index.htm
Header> Last-Modified: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 21:53:55 GMT
Header> Accept-Ranges: bytes
Header> ETag: "bf3cac1bed7cc1:1c25"
Header> Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
Header> X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
Header> Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2012 12:35:37 GMT
Header> Connection: close
Cookie> BIGipServerwww.hrpassport.com=rd5o00000000000000000000ffffc0a80637o81; path=/
Header> Set-Cookie: BIGipServerwww.hrpassport.com=rd5o00000000000000000000ffffc0a80637o81; path=/

[rjkantor]

I tried opening from web a https site a couple more times and it does load every third time. Not sure why it isn't successful everytime. I do see it trying on the unsuccessful times, just waiting with no response. Is it possible to have the check for update retry on timeout rather than just showing an error?

[rjkantor]

I did try the check for new version function again today. Out of ten times, it worked twice. I don't really know the conditions in which this succeeds or fails. It seems to do with the https as you had pointed out.

[Albert Wiersch]

I'm glad it seems to be narrowed down to HTTPS, which uses functions and some additional DLLs that HTTP doesn't. I suspect there is a compatibility problem with CrossOver/Wine and these DLL functions for HTTPS. I would recommend submitting this to the CrossOver/Wine developers as a compatibility problem that hopefully they will be able to address.

You can always go to the download page to see what the latest versions are -
https://www.htmlvalidator.com/htmlval/p ... eguser.php