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danny0838 / webscrapbook

A browser extension that captures web pages to local device or backend server for future retrieval, organization, annotation, and edit. This project inherits from legacy Firefox add-on ScrapBook X.
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Backend initilization error: Unable to connect to backend server #354

Closed grotesque closed 10 months ago

grotesque commented 10 months ago

pywebscrapbook 2.0.1 chrome extension version 2.1.0

getting same error as mentioned in https://github.com/danny0838/webscrapbook/issues/269

it works for firefox which has firefox extension Version 2.0.4 i'm currently working with firefox so don't want to update it and see if it's a version issue

i tried disabling firewall still not working i tried changing port to 4545 still not working with chrome (I changed port in ini and chrome extension)

danny please tell next steps to diagnose and fix this

danny0838 commented 10 months ago

What is the configuration of your backend server?

Have you tried using the exactly same options for Chrome? (i.e. export the options from Firefox, import to Chrome and save)

danny0838 commented 10 months ago

Close issue as no further details are provided.