[publican-list] xi:include over https
Jeffrey Fearn
jfearn at redhat.com
Tue Aug 24 23:37:40 UTC 2010
Joshua Wulf wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I've managed to do xi:include via http, ala the following:
>
> <xi:include href="http://127.0.0.1/Task.xml"
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
>
> This builds fine with Publican.
>
> However, when I try to do the same thing via https, ala the following:
>
> <xi:include
> href="https://svn.server.com/TopicRepository/Concepts/Task.xml"
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" />
>
> I get the following output from publican:
>
> FATAL ERROR: XInclude:1604 in DITA_Topics_in_Docbook.xml on line 9:
> could not load https://svn.server.com/TopicRepository/Concepts/Task.xml,
> and no fallback was found
> at /usr/bin/publican line 622
>
> A possibly relevant issue is that the svn server uses a self-signed
> certificate. After much wrangling, I installed that certificate in the
> openssl framework on my machine, and I can now download the Task.xml
> file using wget with no security warning, so it's not the self-signed
> certificate (if libxml is using openssl).
>
> Is there any way I can get more detailed error message reporting from
> the libXML Perl module in publican to help figure out where the
> roadblock is? I tried looking through the libxml source code, but I
> can't get my head around the c.
This would require code changes, please open a bug along the lines of
"all file parsing should have verbose output unless --quite is on".
> Alternatively, has anyone else tried this?
I did a google search and it doesn't appear libXML2 includes SSL support.
From http://www.xmlsoft.org/intro.html:
Here are some key points about libxml:
...
Basic support for HTTP and FTP client allowing applications to fetch
remote resources.
Cheers, Jeff.
--
Jeff Fearn <jfearn at redhat.com>
Software Engineer
Engineering Operations
Red Hat, Inc
Freedom ... courage ... Commitment ... ACCOUNTABILITY
More information about the publican-list
mailing list