The actual issue turned out to be a missing entry in the Hosts file. Once that was fixed the process worked as well as it does on the other 7 servers.




>Based on your description I have no idea what you're doing. What do emails have to do with HTTP requests here?
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>Typically a Connection Cannot be established that points to a connection issue - most likely the firewall or AV is blocking you from using IP connections. To check turn off hte firewall and try again - if it works that's your issue. If does, turn the firewall back on and explicitly give access to your application to use port 80/443 or whatever other ports you are using.
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>If it isn't - then you need to provide more info since the below has 0 information on what you're actually doing.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>Hi all
>>
>>
>>Have an application that gathers up emails to be sent out to clients and it works (mostly) on 7 servers, but when it hits #8 it horks up with an "A Connection with the server could not be established" coming from this code
>>

>>lnRetval = HttpSendRequest(hHTTPResult,;
>>     tcHeaders, len(tcheaders),;
>>     lcPostBuffer, TnPostSize)
>>
>>If lnRetval = 0     &&which it is
>>  This.nerror= GetLastError()   &&  Error num 12029
>>  This.cerrormsg=This.getsystemerrormsg()
>>  =InternetCloseHandle(hHTTPResult)
>>  Return This.nerror
>>endif
>>

>>
>>My Google-fu points to an IIS issue - but this works fine from my local HD. Not so much from the server.
>>
>>Has anyone seen this, and if so, how did you fix it?