Attempt to access internet?

[JD Kromkowski]

I was running a very simple program (Basically all it does was open a form in a window), when my security advised that the IDE was trying to access the internet. Any idea what that would be about? I’ve been able to recreate it now twice. And I see also that in addition to the IDE, smpwin32.exe is also seeking outgoing access.

[Michael]

On 28/10/2010 20:38, JDK wrote:
> I was running a very simple program (Basically all it does was open a
> form in a window), when my security advised that the IDE was trying
> to access the internet.
>
> Any idea what that would be about?
>
> I've been able to recreate it now twice. And I see also that in
> addition to the IDE, smpwin32.exe is also seeking outgoing access.
>

The IDE is looking for other copies of the IDE on the local LAN (not the
Internet).

smpwin32.exe may try to access the Internet if you are using a feature
that causes it to use the httpclientlib support. This would happen if
you have a field used as the data source for an image that has as its
contents "http://…". SIMPOL can retrieve images to show on forms from
the Internet.

Ciao, Neil

[JD Kromkowski]

Why would it be looking for other copies of the IDE on the LAN? What would
it possible do with that information?

I had come to think that maybe my form used datasource of PPCStype which
could I think throw the trying to access flag, but i haven't had chance to
look more closely at the issue.

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