On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 02:48:46PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 09:37:41PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > [Brian May] > > > This seems to be an increasing problem lately, do I need to submit a > > > seperate bug report for each package??? > > > > Referencing a DTD via HTTP won't work on computers with no Internet > > > connection, or require HTTP queries go via a proxy HTTP server. > > > I believe XML processors are expected to keep a local map of URLs to > > local files, to avoid having to fetch the files from the net. having > > the URLs in the document is _not_ a bug. It is a design choice in > > XML. > > It is nevertheless a misfeature of scrollkeeper that it spends so much > time trying to repeatedly download DTDs from non-functional URLs. I believe it is libxml2 that is taking the time, but I do not know why it doesn't fail immediately if there is no network connection available. /me goes to check Hmm... If I don't have an interface up, libxml2 will fail immediately when trying to retrieve the DTD. Why is it taking so long for you? -- gram
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