16 Sep
2015
16 Sep
'15
6:54 a.m.
Hi Aaron,
Feel free to create a jira issue at http://jira.xwiki.org if you think it’s important that
getURLContent() supports HTTPS. This can be done since under the hood we’re using Http
Client and it supports HTTPS.
Thanks
-Vincent
On 16 Sep 2015 at 01:01:41, Aaron Hardy at AC
(ashtarcommunications@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com)) wrote:
Yep, that's it. Changed it to HTTP and it worked
fine. I must have changed the URL in otherwise working code at some point and forgotten
about it. Oddly, using https://google.com still works for me, but not using https with my
actual API URL. Either way, good to know that HTTPS isn't supported.
Thanks much for the help,
aaron
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:02 PM, vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net) wrote:
Hi Aaron,
On 15 Sep 2015 at 19:12:06, Aaron Hardy at AC
(ashtarcommunications@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com))
wrote:
I've updated that playground page with the
actual URL of the API I'm using - you'll see that the page comes back blank, but
if you follow the link in the browser, you get a page full of XML. So there must be
something about the data that the API is returning that XWiki doesn't like?
This is because you’ve used HTTPS. If you use HTTP it works fine.
ATM getURLContent() doesn’t support HTTPS.
Thanks
-Vincent
Agreed on using final releases - a full upgrade
to 7.x is actually planned soon. If I remember correctly, we got stuck on RC1 during the
last production upgrade cycle because there was some feature in 6.2 that we really needed
but the final release was still a few weeks out by our deadline so we rolled the dice.
Fortunately we haven't run into many issues - which is probably why we're running
behind on the upgrade :)
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:56 PM,
vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)(mailto:vincent@massol.net) wrote:
> Seems to be working fine on http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Aaron
(http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Aaron) > >
Maybe there was a problem specifically on 6.2RC1 (BTW better use some final releases…:)).
I’d recommend 6.4.5 for the 6.x cycle.
Thanks
-Vincent
On 15 Sep 2015 at 18:53:16, Aaron Hardy at AC
(ashtarcommunications@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com))
wrote:
> Page syntax is XWiki 2.1 and the velocity is wrapped. Sorry, I didn't include
the full code for simplicity's sake. Here's a minimal example cut and pasted from
the editor (only thing changed is the actual URL):
>
> *******************************
> {{velocity}}
>
> #set($getURL = "https://www.example.com/api/example.mhtml?param=123")
> $getURL
>
> #set($content = $xwiki.getURLContent($getURL))
> $content
>
> {{/velocity}}
>
> If I set $getURL to "https://google.com", it prints $content to the page.
With my API URL, I get nothing but the link in $getURL. But if I follow that link, I get
the expected XML page from the API, so I know the URL is working correctly.
>
> I figured it was because $content is XML from the API, and HTML from google, but
using $services.xml.parse on the response doesn't work either.
>
> The strange part is that this is code that I haven't touched in quite some time,
and used to be working. The full code parses the XML response and saves various elements
to an HTML table on the page - but it doesn't appear to be getting that far.
>
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:41 PM,
vincent@massol.net(mailto:vincent@massol.net)(mailto:vincent@massol.net) wrote:
> > Hi Aaron,
> >
> > On 15 Sep 2015 at 18:38:17, Aaron Hardy at AC
(ashtarcommunications@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunications@gmail.com))
wrote:
> >
> > > XWiki 6.2RC1. I have some velocity code using getURLContent() to access
an
> > > external API that appears to not be working after a server move, despite
> > > working in the past.
> > >
> > > Something like this used to work:
> > >
> > > *****************************
> > > #set($url =
"https://www.example.com/api/example.mhtml?param=123")
> > > #set($response = $xwiki.getURLContent($url))
> > >
> > > #if ($response)
> > > #set($tags =
$services.xml.parse($response).getElementsByTagName('TAG'))
> > > $tags.length
> > > #end
> > > *****************************
> > >
> > > Now, $response appears to be empty (nothing appears when written to the
> > > page). Going directly to the API URL returns properly formatted XML, so I
> > > know the API itself is working. And changing $url to http://google.com
also
> > > returns data.
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
> >
> > What is the syntax of your page? Are you sure it’s XWiki Syntax 2.0+ and you’re
wrapping the velocity content with the {{velocity}} macro for example (you didn’t show it
in your example).
> >
> > $response is still there
> >
> > Thanks
> > -Vincent
> >
> > > aaron
> >
>