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 (ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@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, > vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net) wrote: > > Hi Aaron, > > > > On 15 Sep 2015 at 19:12:06, Aaron Hardy at AC > > (ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@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, > > > vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net)(mailto:vinc...@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 > > > > (ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@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 $services.xml.parse on the response doesn't work > > > > > either. > > > > > > > > > > The strange part is that this is code that I haven't touched in quite > > > > > some time, and used to be working. The full code parses the XML > > > > > response and saves various elements to an HTML table on the page - > > > > > but it doesn't appear to be getting that far. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:41 PM, > > > > > vinc...@massol.net(mailto:vinc...@massol.net)(mailto:vinc...@massol.net) > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Aaron, > > > > > > > > > > > > On 15 Sep 2015 at 18:38:17, Aaron Hardy at AC > > > > > > (ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com)(mailto:ashtarcommunicati...@gmail.com)) > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > XWiki 6.2RC1. I have some velocity code using getURLContent() to > > > > > > > access an > > > > > > > external API that appears to not be working after a server move, > > > > > > > despite > > > > > > > working in the past. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Something like this used to work: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ***************************** > > > > > > > #set($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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
