Joe:
> I installed OSCPM and when trying to connect to the database
> an error is displayed 'Protocol field is empty'. The applicating
> freezes and can only be terminated in the task manager.
The protocol field is not empty and indicated the version of
> MySQL that is in use. What is going wrong here?
The problem is the following:
If the URL of the location of the server-side script does not have a protocol preffix (http://), when trying to connect to the server it fails with an error (an Indy error "protocol field is empty") and the application freezes.
The problem is in the option: Configuration > Network 3 > Upload script URL. The URL should be a full URL like "http://www.yoursite.com/catalog/oscpm1_upload.php", with the "http://" part. (Or the "https://" part if you have installed the OpenSSL libs and you are using SSL).
The same applies to the option Configuration > Images > Images URL.
The freezing is a different bug that only happens when something fails during the connection, but will not happen as soon as you fix your URLs.
Regards,
Mario A. Valdez-Ramirez.