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Re: XML files referencing DTDs via HTTP



Hi,

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.
This is bugs #153720, #167682, #167845, #168636, #169524, #172041,
#174802, #178298, #178474, and #178565.  And I guess the true reason (?)
for this behaviour (faulty noproxy handling) is described in bugs
#148220 and #171293.

I hope this helps,
Jochen
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