Hey all, I'm getting an Error 417 when I try connecting to the CPDN servers. I recently deployed to Afghanistan so I have to connect through the internet provided by one of the contractors which I believe is routed through Germany (at least that's where sites like Yahoo and Google route to)... Odd thing though is that I can connect to projects like WCG, but CPDN can't. I don't want to try connecting through a proxy yet in case that's against the rules and they cut off my internet altogether, and I saw old post about creating a cc_config.xml file to have it go through http 1 but I have no idea how to do this and don't want to screw something else up... any suggestions?

The code is:

<cc_config>
<options>
<http_1_0>1</http_1_0>
<options>
</cc_config>

Use Notepad to copy this in to a file, and save it as cc_config.xml

1) Make sure that the extension is ONLY xml, and not txt!
2) Do NOT open this file with a web browser. Doing that adds hidden characters to the ends of lines, and it then won't work.

Put the file in the data part of BOINC, the one with client_state.xml
Stop and then restart BOINC.

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However, please note that this project often doesn't have work, and that when it does, there are 30,000 computers after the 3,000-4,000 tasks.
So it may not be worth it to try too hard to keep going with this project under difficult circumstances.

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Woohoo! It worked, thanks! And yeah, definitely familiar with the lack of work, but I also have an ongoing task and it wasn't able to send trickle up messages until I fixed this, so still needed to have. And at the least, projects like WCG still work so I can crunch while waiting for CPDN tasks to come up. Thanks again!

Odd. I didn't notice when I copied that into the post, but the second options should be </options>.


Probably best to fix it, even if it does work. (BOINC "xml" code isn't really xml. :) )

Sorry about the mistake, but it's good to know that you're back in business.
Just for the record, and anyone else reading this, the FAQ is here.

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Well it didn't work at first... it gave me error of unknown tag and no ending tag, so I went in and fixed it then it worked.. but guess I should've said something in case someone else had same issue. Guess I didn't want to point it out with you being nice to help me =) And on that note, thanks again, it's good to be crunching again.