[wellylug] Problem accessing local URL with browser

[Cliff Pratt]

Roger Young wrote:
> Thanks Jethro,
> 
>> what exactly do you mean by:
>>> I have a program which uses Firefox to connect
>>> to a port on my home machine (Beauty). 
> 
>    Well, it's an FE program which uses the browser
>    to access documentation. I have to connect to the
>    local address 
> 
>     http://beauty:2080/v6.5/index.html
>
Is anything listening on 2080? Run netstat -tapn | grep 2080 on 'beauty'.
 >
>> have you made sure your firewall is not blocking connections on that
>> port?
>>
>> (try "telnet beauty 2080" -it should connect to the webserver. If not,
>> the firewall is a likely cause.)
> 
>    You're right, I do have a firewall set up (in the router), and if 
>    I try to connect to that particular port then I get
> 
>    root at Beauty:/etc# telnet beauty 2080
>    Trying 10.1.1.2...
>    telnet: connect to address 10.1.1.2: Connection refused
>
"Connection refused" says nothing is listening on that address/port. 
It's what I get if I 'telnet mymachine some_random_port'.

(Well, that's *one* of the things it could mean).
 >
>    But I don't really understand because only incoming filters are
>    operating, there are no outgoing filters. Since I am behind
>    the firewall, I didn't think there would be a problem. What do
>    I have to do to fix the problem?
>
It doesn't appear to be a firewall issue. If it were a firewall issue it 
would likely hang and/or timeout.
 >
>    Roger
> .................................................................
> 
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 22:19:59 +1200
> Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jethrocarr.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 22:14 +1200, Roger Young wrote:
>>> I have a program which uses Firefox to connect
>>> to a port on my home machine (Beauty). At least it tries to,
>>> but the internet proxy (Privoxy) reports that
>>>
>>> "Your request for http://beauty:2080/v6.5/index.html could 
>>> not be fulfilled, because the connection to 
>>> beauty (10.1.1.2) could not be established."
>>>
>>> I can telnet successfully to this IP number. If I disable the
>>> proxy then I get a "connection was refused" error. I'm not
>>> sure where to look next. Can someone enlighten me?
>> what exactly do you mean by:
>>> I have a program which uses Firefox to connect
>>> to a port on my home machine (Beauty). 
>>
>> suggestions - sounds obvious, but always a possibility:
>>
>> have you made sure your firewall is not blocking connections on that
>> port?
>>
>> (try "telnet beauty 2080" -it should connect to the webserver. If not,
>> the firewall is a likely cause.)
>>

Cheers,

Cliff