Emdb - Could not connect to IMDB error

Discussion in 'other software & services' started by korben, May 27, 2018.

  1. korben

    korben Registered Member

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    https://imgur.com/mOGyfuP

    Since v 3.14 I believe I haven't been able to update my DB using imdb plugin.
    Their FAQ says:
    I keep getting 'Could not connect to IMDB' error even if I allow EMDB in my firewall ?
    Make sure you can open www.emdb.eu in Internet Explorer (even if you are using Chrome or Firefox as default browser!). EMDB uses IE in the background to access web pages like IMDb.com.

    Still, In my IE I am able to access imdb.com

    my security setup:

    TimeFreeze 2016
    RansomFree
    MinerOff

    Does anyone have any idea what's going on?
     
  2. korben

    korben Registered Member

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    Absolutely no idea? i know XP users cannot use emdb any more, but I am on Windows 7 grrr
     
  3. guest

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    A new version has been released yesterday (v3.16) and some hours ago another one (v3.17, but no changelog yet).
    Try to update to the latest version and see if something changes.
     
  4. korben

    korben Registered Member

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    Thanks for the input, mood!

    Still useless,
    what I did, however, was to install 3.17 on my wife's laptop - same error appears.
     
  5. korben

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    Resetting the IE settings to their defaults did the trick.
     
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