If this is the case then you can configure it to allow the blocked behaviour. I don't have any personal experience with this, perhaps someone else can offer further advice.

I am downloading the fedora4 image for vmware now so I can experiment with this further - the topic comes up often enough here.

got 403 on both Win and Unix

how? running your script on the commandline? where? did the 403 error show up in a browser, the logs, inside a network sniffer?

but on Windows my script runs fine in IE6.

Doh! that one must have escaped me. They built a perl interpreter into IE6? Brilliant!

Your unaccurate way to express your problems (speling negligence let aside) makes it very difficult to help you.

• check your DNS setup
• do some hostname lookups from the commandline in your VMware guest
• as for SeLinux, turn that off for testing purposes (append selinux=off to the kernel line in the grub bootloader)

--shmem

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----------------------------  \__(m.====·.(_("always off the crowd"))."·
");sub _{s./.($e="'Itrs `mnsgdq Gdbj O`qkdq")=~y/"-y/#-z/;$e.e && print}

Hi, Now it works! I used this option "httpd_can_network_connect boolean on" and it works :-) setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect 1 Thanks everyone and especially imp :) /Alexander