Posts by Ryujin

Okay, threw out the CSS and started from scratch with the stock CSS of the Strongly Typed template. Guess what? Carousel works at all resolutions under that. So now am selectively restoring chunks of the old custom CSS.
In retrospect, I wish I'd done that from the start, instead of trying to fix what was broken--this is turning out to be much easier & faster.

It turns out that the necessary port is closed. Response from Bluehost:

You cannot retrieve information from http://pilot.passhe.edu:8042/ Port 8042 is closed on your server. Running curl http://pilot.passhe.edu:8042/ on a server with it opened retrieves information. You have to log into cpanel and purchase a dedicated IP and contact us back to enable port 8042.

They have a knowlegebase article explaining why they block ports on shared IP, and how to get a dedicated one--basically a surcharge of abt $3/month.

Thank you again folks!

@diafol, that's a thought but no, since the few calls i've tried all failed from the beginning.

Have opened a ticket with Bluehost. @cereal, it's interesting because calls to other .edu sites do work; don't know if odd results here explain anything (page takes a long time to render as it waits for last two calls to time out).

i'll leave this discussion open till i can report what Bluehost says. But cereal, i'm in awe of the work you did to sort this out. When i hear from Bluehost (and hopefully what i'll hear is that they fixed it!) i will mark the question 'solved.'