Hi. I have a problem with my BOINC clients throwing this error message

12/3/2010 11:23:07 AM Account manager error: HTTP error
12/3/2010 11:23:11 AM	lhcathome	Scheduler request failed: Error 417

It happens to all my projects.

Now, I know what's causing it... it's my smoothwall express 3 firewall's web proxy. I can turn off the proxy, and BOINC happily communicates away; but I want the web proxy to work too!!

When I brought up the problem on the smoothwall forum, a thoughtful someone (ahem) mentioned it was something that should be fixed with BOINC. So..., here I am asking if this is something that anyone had heard of before, and if it's something fixable?

Many thanks for the help!

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error 417 has been asked about often here.
This FAQ gives some help.

Please note the 2 links near the top to other relevant FAQs, about the file, and it's intended location.

Also make sure you set up your proxy in BOINC.

In BOINC 6.10 and before->BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced->Options->Proxy tabs.
In BOINC 6.12 and above->BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Tools->Display and network options->Proxy tabs.

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Hi. This "Error 417" is really desperately terrible. Why can't you people fix it? I am innocently getting it all the time on the portable computer that connects with wifi or cable... All applications HAVE NO PROBLEM connecting to the Internet, but BOINC sucks and fails to connect. I am sorry... No proxy, nothing special, just plain simple DHCP connection over cable. Vista. Cache cleaned with ipconfig /flushdns, restarted multiple times. Created your sick cc_config.xml in BOINC directory. Nothing helps. All projects. Issue occurrs again and again, I have to wait some 10 minutes until the system is able to connect... That is however not always possible when I need to submit the work and leave quickly to take the portable away from the net... WTF?

23. 12. 2010 21:04:29 Starting BOINC client version 6.10.58 for windows_intelx86
23. 12. 2010 21:04:29 log flags: file_xfer, sched_ops, task
23. 12. 2010 21:04:29 Libraries: libcurl/7.19.7 OpenSSL/0.9.8l zlib/1.2.3
23. 12. 2010 21:04:29 Data directory: C:\ProgramData\BOINC
23. 12. 2010 21:04:29 Running under account Pavel
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Processor: 2 GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T5250 @ 1.50GHz [Family 6 Model 15 Stepping 13]
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Processor: 2.00 MB cache
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Processor features: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss htt tm pni ssse3 cx16 nx lm tm2 pbe
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 OS: Microsoft Windows Vista: Home Premium x86 Edition, Service Pack 2, (06.00.6002.00)
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Memory: 2.00 GB physical, 4.23 GB virtual
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Disk: 95.39 GB total, 2.35 GB free
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Local time is UTC +1 hours
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 NVIDIA GPU 0: GeForce 8400M GS (driver version 18766, CUDA version 2020, compute capability 1.1, 128MB, 26 GFLOPS peak)
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Poem@Home URL http://boinc.fzk.de/poem/; Computer ID 68781; resource share 100
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Collatz Conjecture URL http://boinc.thesonntags.com/collatz/; Computer ID 41159; resource share 100
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 boincsimap URL http://boincsimap.org/boincsimap/; Computer ID 183619; resource share 100
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 SZTAKI Desktop Grid URL http://szdg.lpds.sztaki.hu/szdg/; Computer ID 325307; resource share 100
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 General prefs: from http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/ (last modified 01-Jan-1970 01:00:01)
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Host location: none
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 General prefs: using your defaults
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Reading preferences override file
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Preferences:
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 max memory usage when active: 1022.84MB
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 max memory usage when idle: 1534.26MB
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 max disk usage: 1.86GB
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 don't use GPU while active
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 suspend work if non-BOINC CPU load exceeds 60 %
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 (to change preferences, visit the web site of an attached project, or select Preferences in the Manager)
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Using proxy info from GUI
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Not using a proxy
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 SZTAKI Desktop Grid Restarting task caa03215-1b38-489c-abd4-252c594ad6ff_0b3ad166-39b1-4c73-bc42-607f8343cb28_445840_1 using search version 206
23. 12. 2010 21:04:46 boincsimap update requested by user
23. 12. 2010 21:04:50 boincsimap Sending scheduler request: Requested by user.
23. 12. 2010 21:04:50 boincsimap Requesting new tasks for CPU and GPU
23. 12. 2010 21:04:51 boincsimap Scheduler request failed: Error 417

Created your sick cc_config.xml in BOINC directory.

If you mean in the BOINC programs directory, then that is the wrong place.
It'll have to reside in the BOINC Data directory, in your case in C:\Programdata\BOINC\

What did you put in the cc_config.xml file and why is it sick?

And then...

23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Using proxy info from GUI
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Not using a proxy

These two contradict each other. Are you using a proxy on that system or not?

An error 417 isn't really for BOINC or its developers to fix. It's a standard HTTP error, which happens between your computer and the project server. It can occur due to whatever manner you connect to the internet, but also because your ISP decided to use HTTP 1.0, instead of the newer HTTP 1.1 protocol. In this case you can force BOINC to use the older protocol. With a flag in the cc_config.xml file.

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23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Using proxy info from GUI
23. 12. 2010 21:04:30 Not using a proxy

Checking for the wonky setting above...
Open BOINC Manager->Advanced view->Advanced menu->Options.
When you do not use a proxy, both the HTTP Proxy and Socks Proxy tabs should have no information in them and they shouldn't have a check-mark to activate them next to their respective "Connect via xx proxy" option.

Proxy settings can also be set with starting Boinc.exe through the command line. Check that when you start BOINC, how you do that and with what command line entries?

Proxy settings can also be set through the core client configuration file (the infamous cc_config.xml file). Please be so kind to tell what you have set in there?

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