I'm trying to figure out why it won't work, it's not an firewall issue as my Windows XP machine which is running behind the same firewall has no issues. Also i get the same error trying to connect the Geometer skin to Utorrent which uses a local connection (127.0.0.1) which proves even more it's not a firewall issue (no software firewall or antivirus installed).
My own guess is that the TCP/IP stack of Windows 2003 R2 is so different from the usual winxp/7 ones so that it might render rainmeter incompatible with this OS, however i have no way to test it.
Just tested rainmeter on a clean build of windows 2003 and fetching from internet worked.
My guess is that some of the applications i use are clashing with rainmeter, i use FTP, BNC, APACHE, MYSQL, SHOUTCAST, TORRENT etc on this server, is there any particular ports needed for webparser to do its job properly?
Not that I know of. That error code of 12002 is a "timeout error" in the WinAPI call to the network. Sure there wasn't a firewall or proxy issue with the other Win2003 setup? WebParser cannot use a proxy that requires authentication.
Just started to get that too with my gnometer utorrent skin and for my ventrilo
This is the uTorrent4.ini i have, ive edited the original so it showed the amount downloaded in % and so it suit my setup better, all worked fine untill i restarted my pc this morning.
I have a skin that pulls the status indicator (OK/Problem/Failed) and FAP usage from my HughesNet modem. It's really handy to be able to simply look at Rainmeter and see my internet connection status rather than having to go to the modem status page all the time.
But approximately two weeks ago, it just quit working with this same error. I haven't found a solution yet.
I'm running on WinXP Pro SP3, Rainmeter 2.0.0 rev 475 (32-bit)