has anyone had issues trying to get a Compose for ...

# compose-desktop

[james]

has anyone had issues trying to get a Compose for Desktop application to get network access on Windows? is there some trick to enabling network connectivity? I'm building an app using a Windows machine for development, and there's nothing I can do with networking that doesn't result in an exception "Connection refused: no further information":

[james]

that exception is triggered by attempting a request with Ktor Client, but I'm seeing no connectivity using any other networking classes too.

[Kirill Grouchnikov]

Is it any different if you do a simple main function using ktor without any compose code in it?

[james]

it fails even if I attempt to use a standard java.net Socket

I haven't had this issue on my mac.. seems to be specific to this Windows machine 🤔

[K Merle]

Could it be your firewall?

[james]

as an update: it wasn't the firewall, I tried disabling it entirely to test that

.. in the end, rebooting the machine and trying again worked. yay Windows! 😬

[spierce7]

uh oh

[spierce7]

working around weird networking issues can be problematic.

[spierce7]

Other applications were able to access the internet, right?

[james]

yeah, everything else was working as normal. it was a weird one. I haven't seen the issue again since