Help please. Getting round Vista 64bit connexion manager

[Clive Lumb]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me get round a problem that arises with a small
app I am developping.

Basically it is a port checker and it works fine... except on Vista 64
bits - and I don't have access to Vista64 to do any testing, only the person
on the other sideof the world who reported the error and who is not what one
could call a Power User.

The app connects to "somedomain.comort" using a basic socket. This works
fine on XP and Vista32. Under Vista64 the user gets a ""Invalid URI: the URI
scheme is not valid". Now I do no URI checking in the app, so it looks like
it's Vista's connexion manager that is picking up the "error" for me.

Since the port the app is testing is not necesarily associated with a
"known" protocol I cannot add an "http://" or similar to make sure that the
URI checker approves of it.

So my request...
Does anyone know how to get round this problem?
Is there some kind soul out there with Vista64 who would be willing to do a
few tests?

Many many thanks in advance
C

 

[Andrew Morton]

Does anyone know how to get round this problem?

Would any of the schemes listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme

do? Or just try with making one up yourself.

Andrew

 

[ftl03]

Would any of the schemes listed at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URI_scheme

do? Or just try with making one up yourself.

Andrew

Interesting & useful link Andrew, thanks!
I don't think any of them will do... and making one up myself would probably
make matters worse with the Vista Connection Manager (if it is the culprit
as suspected).

Cheers!

 

[Clive Lumb]

Hi,

I'm hoping someone can help me get round a problem that arises with a
small app I am developping.

Basically it is a port checker and it works fine... except on Vista 64
bits - and I don't have access to Vista64 to do any testing, only the
person on the other sideof the world who reported the error and who is not
what one could call a Power User.

The app connects to "somedomain.comort" using a basic socket. This works
fine on XP and Vista32. Under Vista64 the user gets a ""Invalid URI: the
URI scheme is not valid". Now I do no URI checking in the app, so it looks
like it's Vista's connexion manager that is picking up the "error" for me.

Since the port the app is testing is not necesarily associated with a
"known" protocol I cannot add an "http://" or similar to make sure that
the URI checker approves of it.

So my request...
Does anyone know how to get round this problem?
Is there some kind soul out there with Vista64 who would be willing to do
a few tests?

Sorry to have disturbed you for nothing...
It turns out that the user was having problems installing the application,
not running it.
(Web-based VS2005 install, client was using Opera)

Thnaks