[issue32130] xml.sax parser validation sometimes fails when obtaining DTDs from https sites

2017-11-25 Thread Shamal Faily
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[issue32130] xml.sax parser validation sometimes fails when obtaining DTDs from https sites

2017-11-25 Thread Shamal Faily
New submission from Shamal Faily : If an XML document is externally validated against a DTD from a https site then, depending on the security posture of the hosting site, validation might fail. This seems to be due to the lack of user agent information received by the host when the request