Re: [ecf-dev] Difficulty connecting to services using r_osgi and web soc

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On 3/13/2015 3:00 PM, Timothy Vogel wrote:
> Scott / devs,
> One of the great part of a mailing list for me is that 50% of the time I
solve my own problem when typing up the answer.  About 25% of the time,
I figure it out within 30 minutes of sending the mail and the rest of
the time it is solved with replies.
> This is one of those times I figured it out within 30 minutes ;-)

FWIW, I consider this one of the process benefits inherent in open
development...at least as practiced by this community.  As Tim says, just
*describing* the problem publicly often pays dividends.

> I KNEW the ports were open in all 3 firewalls (1 client, 2 server) and I
still couldn't connect so I sent the mail.  Then just to triple check, I
started tomcat on the server and connected from my client.  My face
turned 3 shades of red when I got a timeout because one of the server
firewalls was blocking port 80!
> I stopped tomcat, changed the firewall config and started karaf.  Lo and
behold my RCP client connected to the karaf server and retrieved data!!!

Congrats!  This is great to hear.

> It might still make sense to allow changing the timeout on general
principles but I will leave that up to the primary developers.

Yes I do think it makes sense to allow changing/customizing this timeout. 
Bug created here:  https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=462107

Thanks,

Scott