TOPIC: CMC-Joomla calling your website.

First I'd like to thank you for a MailChimp and Joomla solution to allow people to subscribe for my MailChimp newsletter while remaining on my Joomla website.

It does work.
However, in your code you call to your own website.
This is causing my RocketTheme template to not allow me admin access to manage the template.
I've just ensured that I'm up to date on the Gantry framework, that my template is current and I just downloaded the most recent version of the CMC Joomla.

When I attempt to access the template via the admin panel I get this error:

An error has occurred.

0 Could not connect to resource: compojoom.com/index.php?option=com_ars&v...&dummy=extension.xml

I'm wondering why a call back to your own URL is necessary?
I've seen Joomla Extensions get removed from the Joomla Extension Directory for such action.
Is it really necessary?
Why is the code not complete if so?

Can this be commented out and the solution still function?
I'd love to continue using your tool, but I also have to access my Template Admin Features.
Even when I disable your Module, the error still persists.
Any thoughts ??

I just deleted you entire system and my template is back accessible to me.
Tomorrow I'll re-add your tool... and then turn off and delete item by item starting with the AutoUpdate plug-in... since when I followed that link provided it appears to me to be a version check... like to check my current version and to inform me of the most current version available.
No idea why that would cause my template management from RocketTheme to not be accessible.. but even my life partner who is a Web Applications Developer double checked me and come to the same conclusion.
If you need any additional info to help you sort this out I'm very willing to provide.
If I'm having this problem... I cannot be the only one.

Love your tool and hoping it will play nice with my current and future templates.

Night.

Hey Dennis,
This is not a calling home function. This is the update url - which normally should be called by joomla itself, when you check for new updates. Now why rockettheme calls the update function is beyond me.
If you look in the forum you'll see that other people have the same issue with the update url. But the only way for me to fix this is to get access to a website that has this problem. Can you provide me with access to your site?

Regards,
Daniel