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RE: Newbie, can't connect to any website

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:35:47 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 17 Feb 2010, Young, Arien R wrote:

> > Do you use any firewall? Have you tried to turn it off?
>
> Yes there's a corporation-wide firewall, but no personal one that I can shut
> off. I wouldn't think that would be a problem though, because I can reach
> the websites through web-browsers, and isn't Curl using the same port that
> Firefox would? If the firewall allows a browser through that port, wouldn't
> it allow Curl as well?

And that Firefox isn't using a proxy of some kind?

But yes, there should be no difference between Firefox's TCP connect handshake
and libcurl's.

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