Failed to open TCP connection

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Hey guys, I’m here again bringing some issues hahaha

This time my problem is:

Error Loading File CollectionPlugin.rb
Error: #<TypeError: Failed to open TCP connection to collectionplugin.com:443 (no implicit conversion of nil into String)>
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/net/http.rb:939:in rescue in block in connect' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/net/http.rb:936:in block in connect’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/timeout.rb:93:in block in timeout' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/timeout.rb:103:in timeout’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/net/http.rb:935:in connect' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/net/http.rb:920:in do_start’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/net/http.rb:909:in start' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:337:in open_http’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:755:in buffer_open' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:226:in block in open_loop’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:224:in catch' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:224:in open_loop’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:165:in open_uri' C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:735:in open’
C:/Program Files/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/Tools/RubyStdLib/open-uri.rb:35:in open' C:/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/CollectionPlugin.rb:152:in block in initialCfg’
C:/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/CollectionPlugin.rb:148:in each' C:/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/CollectionPlugin.rb:148:in initialCfg’
C:/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/CollectionPlugin.rb:162:in <module:CriaPlugin>' C:/Users/Daniel/AppData/Roaming/SketchUp/SketchUp 2020/SketchUp/Plugins/CollectionPlugin.rb:7:in <top (required)>’

PS: collectionplugin is my plugin and https://collection.com is where some of our assets are.

This problem happens just for somes people, looks like the sketchup is blocking external connection, I already did a lot of tests, like access the https://collection.com from the browser (outside of sketchup) and works normally. The problem is only inside Sketchup.

Has anyone seem something similir or has any idea?

thanks a lot buddys!!

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  1. You are using the Ruby Standard Lib Net::Http which is blocking. (Ie, the SketchUp application can go into not responding mode if there are latency problems.)

    • You might try using the SketchUp API’s Sketchup::Http asynchronous classes.

  2. The error …
    Error: #<TypeError: Failed to open TCP connection to collectionplugin.com:443 (no implicit conversion of nil into String)>
    … indicates that your code is not checking for a nil return from some call before it passes the result to something that expects a String object.
    So, … code defensively.

  3. Error Loading File CollectionPlugin.rb
    You should not be doing a net connection during a file load.
    SketchUp extensions are event driven code objects.
    Event-driven programming - Wikipedia
    https://www.edgetechacademy.edu/node-js/event-driven-programming

  4. Is your extension using the SketchupExtension class and following best practices ?

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Hi Dan,

Thanks for reply,
actually looks a cascade error caused by the connection blocking,
but I’ll see the best practices again.

thanks for help.

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@DanRathbun. You should get paid for delivering this kind of support.

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