outpost firewall blocking http requests for no reason and without logging?

Feb 06, 2007 2 Replies

Hi. I am developing a site on local computer that is running outpost firewall The page that is pulled from http://localhost in firefox or IE (running locally too) has images embedded in it; Images are pulled from another "web server" running locally on port 8000 (it's java app from onlineindicators.com, it runs w/ java Vm and acts as a tiny web server).



When outpost firewall is running (allow most mode, all plugins removed), images do not load in a random fashion - e.g. if you refresh the page in either IE or Firefox some images appear and some show as unavailable, and with repeated refreshes different images are unavailable. No new blocking entries appear in Outpost logs.



As soon as you shut the firewall down images show up without any problems.



Is there any way to fix this?



You're setting there doing some kind of Web development with Outpost sitting there on a machine, then what can be said.

If you're behind a NAT router, FW router or FW appliance, which you should be doing with any machine hosting a WEB server, then Outpost is not needed, disable it or get rid of it in the Web development work.

It's plain and simple.

I'm on my home computer so no external FW is available... is there any way to fix outpost?

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