Eggdrop fails to connect to external urls

2018-10-02T09:09:38-04:00

I have a tcl script that's supposed to fetch info (title) of links that are posted to channels. However recently it suddenly stopped working. When a link is posted at a channel, the bot tells me this (for example):

Connection to https://www.google.com failed

It seems that that error message is produced by the tcl script ( https://github.com/teeli/urltitle/blob/ ... ltitle.tcl ), like this:

Code:

if {[catch {set http [Fetch $url -timeout $timeout]} results]} {        putlog "Connection to $url failed"

So apparently it's timing out (it gives the message instantly when an url is posted at the channel). Same thing with both http and https links.

It worked fine for months, until this happened. I made no changes anywhere, it just suddenly started happening. I tried to restart the bot but it didn't fix it.

Could it be that the server admin has simply prevented the bot from connecting to url's in any way...?

Statistics: Posted by jsl — Tue Oct 02, 2018 9:09 am

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Eggdrop fails to connect to external urls