Why does adobe air command-line tool adl keep saying "Connection failure:xxx"

Question

Every time I ran an AIR application, even the simplest "Hello World" sample, with adl, it says:

Connection failure: Connection refused

I didn't try to establish a connection to any website or server. adl complains all the time and it's annoying. Any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

It might be trying to contact a remote time server. From this blog post:

By default, when an application is packaged, the ADT process attempts to contact a time server to generate a timestamp. If you use a proxy server to connect to the internet (see my previous rant post), you’ll get a ‘connection refused’ error. Yiou can get around this by adding ‘-tsa none’ before the file component of the command like so:

adt -package -storetype pkcs12 -keystore sampleCert.pfx -tsa none HelloWorld.air HelloWorld-app.xml HelloWorld.html AIRAliases.js