Public bug reported:
It is not possible to specify an https URI when calling "parse" from the
lxml.html module. It will always throw an IOError. Specifying http URIs
works.
>>> parse("http://www.google.de";)
<lxml.etree._ElementTree object at 0x7fa204f2eea8>
>>> parse("https://www.google.de";)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/lxml/html/__init__.py", line 661, in
parse
return etree.parse(filename_or_url, parser, base_url=base_url, **kw)
File "lxml.etree.pyx", line 2706, in lxml.etree.parse
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:49958)
File "parser.pxi", line 1500, in lxml.etree._parseDocument
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71797)
File "parser.pxi", line 1529, in lxml.etree._parseDocumentFromURL
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:72080)
File "parser.pxi", line 1429, in lxml.etree._parseDocFromFile
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:71175)
File "parser.pxi", line 975, in lxml.etree._BaseParser._parseDocFromFile
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:68173)
File "parser.pxi", line 539, in
lxml.etree._ParserContext._handleParseResultDoc (src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64257)
File "parser.pxi", line 625, in lxml.etree._handleParseResult
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:65178)
File "parser.pxi", line 563, in lxml.etree._raiseParseError
(src/lxml/lxml.etree.c:64493)
IOError: Error reading file 'https://www.google.de': failed to load external
entity "https://www.google.de";
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: python-lxml 2.2.6-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-6.8-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-6-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 28 22:10:27 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha amd64 (20100602.2)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lxml
** Affects: lxml (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug maverick
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lxml.html.parse does not recognize "https"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/599533
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