[publican-list] xi:include over https

[Jeffrey Fearn]

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.

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