hi,

I have a function which reads the xml from a web url into the
XmlTextReader, and then I work my way through the reader producing
html from the different nodes. All the code works fine when I debug
the project, but when I publish the project and run it on a live
server, I seem to be getting problems.

I get the error:

A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not
properly respond after a period of time, or established connection
failed because connected host has failed to respond

My code is as follows:

       Dim strURL As String = "http://www.nme.com/clubnmerss"
       Dim sb As New StringBuilder()
       Dim reader As New XmlTextReader(strURL)
       reader.MoveToContent()
       Dim sString2 As String = ""
       Dim hasEnteredGig As Integer = 0
       While reader.Read()
           If reader.Name = "venue" Then
               hasEnteredGig = 1
               sString = sString.Replace("##G##", sString2)
               sString2 = ""
               Venue = reader.ReadString()
               sString += "<div class='gig-box'><img src='media/liv/
club-nme.gif' /><br /></div>"
               sString += "<div class='gig'><div class='basic-
headline'><h1>CLUB NME</h1></div>##G##</div>"
               sString2 += "<h2>" & Venue & "</h2>"
           End If
           If reader.Name = "address" Then
               Address = reader.ReadString()
               sString2 += "<h2>" & Address & "</h2>"
           End If
           If reader.Name = "url" Then
               Url = reader.ReadString()
               sString2 += "<h2>" & Url & "</h2>"
           End If
           If reader.Name = "gig" Then
               Gig = reader.ReadString() & "<br />"
               sString2 += "" & Gig & ""
               hasEnteredGig = 0
           End If
       End While
       If hasEnteredGig = 0 Then
           sString = Left(sString, (sString.Length) - 148)
       End If
       'sString = sb.ToString()
       reader.Close()

Like I say this works fine when debuging the project locally, but
fails online.

Hopefully someone can help :)