Avoiding dial-up

Lee Daniel Crocker writes:
 > Jigsaw (Win32) has an annoying and critical bug that I've 
 > seen in about 1/3 of all Winsock apps: it won't start up
 > without dialing into your ISP.  Early JDB had this bug, as
 > did early Symantec Cafe, and some Web servers.
 > 
 > This is a critical issue in the sense that if it is not
 > fixed, I will not be able to use Jigsaw.  I know it can
 > be fixed, because other web servers don't have it.  I'll
 > dig into the code myself, but I bring up the issue here
 > in case it's already being worked on (perhaps by the ones
 > who fixed JDB?)
 > 
 > I would love to use and test Jigsaw on my machine, but
 > if I have to pay phone rates for my machine to talk to
 > itself, that's just idiotic.
 > 
 > 

Do you know if this is a Jigsaw related bug, or a Java related bug. If
you make any progress let me know, otherwise, I'll try and fix it
myself.

Anselm.

Received on Friday, 7 June 1996 16:24:10 UTC