Winsock connect problem

[jmsrickland]

Yesterday I was able to connect to my website like this:

Winsock1.Connect "www.mywebsite.com", 80

Now it won't connect and it does not fire the Error event either

I can, however, connect to my website using a browser

[Niya]

Try using the IP address of the website instead. The idea is that you want to determine whether its some kind of DNS problem with Winsock.

[jmsrickland]

Same problem.

I don't get it. OK connecting using browser but not Winsock. I did think that perhaps my ISP is blocking port 80 but then if that is the case how does browser connect.

[Max187Boucher]

Since you were connected yesterday then you know it's not your ISP blocking it. Though ISP could be blocking unknown connections from port 80 such as your vb6 program, but not microsoft' ie or google' chrome (known programs) which I doubt it would be the case here.

A lot of times it's a router or a firewall blocking it. You have port forward on both? or accept incoming on port 80? Don't forget that anti-viruses also has protection which could block some port 80 connections.

It is hard to find the problem when it's not on your own computer (for us). I hate antivirus and firewalls, I personally uninstall/disable all of them, or simply keep the anti virus to scan once in a while.. Also my router is built in my ISP modem, which sucks even more because there is not as many options to allow ports to be opened and such. Ever since I've had this router/modem (isp) my xbox 360 disconnects all the time so I quit playing, but my laptop never disconnects, so i know its a port (or my ISP modem/router) problem, I did try to fix it and still no luck.

All this just to say it has something to do with your port in your router/firewall/antivirus protection.

In the windows 95-98 age this would never happen

[Doogle]

Your Router may need a re-boot

[jmsrickland]

You know, maybe that's has something to do with it. I had forgotten that I did a router shut down for about an hour and then turned it back on. It seems that I was able to use port 80 in my VB project before I shut down the router and after I turned it back on I wasn't able to use port 80 eventhough the browser has no problems with using port 80

[Nightwalker83]

You know, maybe that's has something to do with it. I had forgotten that I did a router shut down for about an hour and then turned it back on. It seems that I was able to use port 80 in my VB project before I shut down the router and after I turned it back on I wasn't able to use port 80 eventhough the browser has no problems with using port 80

Could the router firewall be blocking the connection?

[jmsrickland]

Here's something that I just remembered. Verizon updated my Internet by upgrading from 50/25 to 50/50 and now I remember that there was a short time that my Internet was not operational and then after a while it was back on. Now if I remember correctly it was after it came back up that I first discovered that I couldn't connect to any website on port 80 or 21 but other connections were OK and the browsers (IE and Chrome) were able to connect on port 80 but none of my VB apps could do it. Something smells fishy around here