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Connection refused.

Hi,

I'm using pro v2.6 and trying to scrape from an external java application. When I run the java application I get a 'Connection refused' message in the Eclipse IDE output console.

Also,
1. The scrape java program is just like the one in Tutorial 2.
2. I'm running on Mac OS X 10.4.5.
3. I've started start_server.sh from the Terminal window as 'sh start_server.sh'. It seems to have started.
4. When I see the running processes in Mac OS' Activity Monitor, I don't see another screen-scraper process apart from the screen-scraper client I'm already running.
5. When I do an IP port scan using the utility program in Mac OS X, for IP 127.0.0.1, it doesn't pick up any of the screen-scraper set ports.
6. The scrape works fine if I do it all in screen-scraper client.

Please assist.

thanks
Amrit.

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iamrit on 02/27/2006 at 3:26 pm

Connection refused.

Excellent news. Thanks for the follow-up. We'll be including that fix in our next version.

Best,

Todd

 todd on 03/02/2006 at 9:23 am

Connection refused.

thanks Todd.

It's working fine now.... appreciate the quick turn-around.

regards
Amrit

 iamrit on 03/01/2006 at 4:26 pm

Connection refused.

Hi Amrit,

As fortune would have it the Java Service Wrapper developers have come up with a fix for this. I've bundled it up here

http//www.screen-scraper.com/screen-scraper/updates/mac_2.6.0.5a_update.zip

You can download that file, unzip it, then copy its contents on top of the existing files in your screen-scraper instance. I've tested it and it looks to fix the bug. Would you mind trying it to see if you find the same?

Thanks,

Todd

 todd on 02/28/2006 at 11:13 am

Connection refused.

Hi Amrit,

Coincidentally, we're in the process of investigating this Mac OS X bug right now. We use a third-party library called Java Service Wrapper (here) to handle running screen-scraper as a server, and it appears to have a bug in some versions of Mac OS X: here.

As a temporary workaround, you can run the screen-scraper server in interactive mode. Simply open a terminal, cd to the directory where screen-scraper is installed, and type the following:


java -jar screen-scraper.jar --start-server --interactive

Kind regards,

Todd Wilson

 todd on 02/27/2006 at 3:38 pm