Error message on every news source that I've tried

[mrd2689a]

Hello guys,

I just downloaded this Calibre software and it seems like a great program. However, I can't seem to get the RSS news fetch to work. I'm always getting the same type of error message:

Failed feed: Gente

<urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>

Failed feed: Titulares de portada

<urlopen error [Errno 10061] No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it>

etc, etc. Every "feed" that I am trying to download, no matter what website it is coming from, is dispplaying the same type of error messages. Any suggestions? I really appreciate your help! Thank you!!!

Matt

[kovidgoyal]

You've likely got stale proxy settings that calibre is using. Go to preferences->miscellaneous to see what proxies, if any calibre is using.

[mrd2689a]

Hello kovidgoyal,

Currently the proxy in use is http: 127.0.0.1:47392 . Does this help?

Thanks,

Matt

[Starson17]

Originally Posted by mrd2689a

Hello kovidgoyal,

Currently the proxy in use is http: 127.0.0.1:47392 . Does this help?

Thanks,

Matt

That's a loopback address. It means that your system is telling Calibre to connect through a proxy program running on your computer and listening on the port 47392. It could be anything from some sort of security software to a virus to a hijack through Internet Explorer (if you are using Windows).

If you are using Windows, do some searches on Windows, Internet Explorer and proxies. It should probably not be using a proxy (mine isn't), and there are a lot of people who have had this problem and have fixed it in IE, which is how you tell Windows to use/not use a proxy.