On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 09:30:46AM -0700, Steve Wolf wrote: > I just submitted a bug and proposed fix: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694185
thanks ! > According to the instructions at http://xmlsoft.org/bugs.html, I'm > supposed to notify this list. I apologize if this wasn't necessary. No need to apologize, it is actually better to raise the issue here too :-) > >From the bug description: > > > RedHat Bug 624626 discusses the new behavior of libxml regarding brackets > > around IPv6 addresses. In earlier versions such as 2.6.27, uri.c stripped > > the > > brackets (e.g. uri->server == "fdf2:1e39:73d1:934e::119"); in the current > > version it returns IPv6 addresses with brackets intact (e.g. uri->server == > > "[fdf2:1e39:73d1:934e::119]"). > > > > Thus in 2.9.0, xmlCtxtReadFile() has a problem when it is passed a URL > > containing a literal IPv6 address. xmlCtxReadFile() and its subroutines > > pass > > uri->server unchanged to getaddrinfo(), which doesn't recognize a bracketed > > IPv6 address, so the read fails. In the sample program attached, it > > returns: > > > > error : No such file or directory > > I/O warning : failed to load external entity > > "http://[fdf2:1e39:73d1:934e::119:4567/Manifest.xml"; > > > The attached patch strips the brackets from the uri->server value, and > > allows > > the sample program to execute without error. Okay, understood, I hardened your patch a bit, and pushed it, http://git.gnome.org/browse/libxml2/commit/?id=19d785b5c76fcd9d7bc2c8d678b05ed83b02f91d thanks ! Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Open Source and Standards, Red Hat [email protected] | libxml Gnome XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | virtualization library http://libvirt.org/ _______________________________________________ xml mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/ [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml
