ikeswoop

I have received the following from our hosting company. Please help. Or can you recommend another an alternative..
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Hi Ike,

Thanks for your reply.

I am sorry but their response does not say how mailchimp would be trying to connect. I would recommend checking with the mailchimp developers to see if their scripting makes use of http loopbacks. If it does, then this script cannot run on the shared hosting.

Our servers prevent scripts making HTTP (port 80) connections back to the same server that they’re running on, as policy.

This is done to prevent the possibility that mis-configured scripts could enter, essentially, an “infinite loop”, making call-backs to themselves. Such a situation is extremely detrimental to server performance, and would negatively impact other users also on this shared server.

Unfortunately we are not able to lift this block on a per-site or per-script basis, so you will need to see if you are able to reconfigure the script (or contact the script authors for assistance doing this), or use an alternative script that doesn’t require HTTP requests to its own server.

Hi there,

I am having the same problem. Mailchimp version 1.4.2. WP Version is 3.8.5.

This is a message from our host:

Thanks for your reply.

We do not block any connections to websites, so these should be available to connect without any issues.

They should be able to login via oAuth without any issues as we do not block any websites from our server. The only thing we block is loop back connections. Can you confirm with MailChimp if this plugin now uses loop back connections at all?