Does it work if you use the DTD it says to use?
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN"
"http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd";>
Dave
--- Adam Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Last night, our company had a maintenance window whereby Internet access
> was shut off from our office to the outside world. During that time I
> was doing development and attempted to start up our web app in a
> development environment.
>
> I've not seen this error in almost 2 years but it's apparently back:
>
> [org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet] [handleConfigException] Parsing
> error processing resource path /WEB-INF/struts-optout.xml
> java.net.UnknownHostException: jakarta.apache.org
> at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:177)
> at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:520)
> at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:470)
> at sun.net.NetworkClient.doConnect(NetworkClient.java:157)
> ...*snip*...
>
> I remember this well. The problem is that struts-optout.xml has the
> DOCTYPE of:
>
> <!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
> "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.3//EN"
> "http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_3.dtd";>
>
> But, the struts-config_1_3.dtd is not in the struts.jar file (we're
> using Struts 1.2.9) so, apparently in order to validate that the XML
> file is well-formed at webapp start up time, Tomcat feels the need to go
> out and retrieve this DTD - only it can't because Internet access was
> down. The problem is greatly exacerbated by the fact that Tomcat stops
> processing the loading of struts modules when this one fails essentially
> rendering the web app useless.
>
> I seem to recall playing with turning validation of XML files off, but
> that not being a sufficient solution so I tried adding the DTD into the
> struts JAR file in the same location as the other DTDs:
> org/apache/struts/resources/struts-config_1_x.dtd (where x=0,1,2) but
> that didn't work.
>
> We need to be able to find a solution to where we can host the DTDs
> locally and do not have to rely on a 3rd party server being up in order
> to deploy our web application. I seem to recall this being an issue
> with the W3C (especally w.r.t. [X]HTML validation in that it results in
> a ton of unnecessary network calls to retrieve DTDs for validation
> rather than web servers hosting the DTDs locally.
>
> I'm sure I'm not the only one to have seen this so any help to resolve
> this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
>
> -- adam
>
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