Hi Philip,
Thanks for this. I think the Java and Ruby libraries have been getting
more attention so we must have missed these issues. I've prepared a new
tarball labeled 0.1.1 which will go up on Sourceforge soon.
Martin
Philip Bett wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've had to make a couple of modifications to my copy of Connotea.pm in
> www-connotea-perl-0.1 in order to get it to work -- I thought I'd post
> them here in case others found them useful. (apologies if they're known
> issues, but they are still in the downloadable code)
>
>
> (1) Using a proxy:
> Working from a university means all web traffic has to go via a proxy
> server.
>
> I had to add a line to the sub 'new' in Connotea.pm:
> ...
> $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new; ## Existing line...
> $ua->env_proxy; ## New line!
> $ua->agent(UA_PREFIX.' ('.$ua->agent.')'); ## Existing line...
> ...
>
> Simple enough.
>
>
> (2) Parsing the response:
> This is a bit more serious. The sub 'parse_body' is set to croak if the
> returned content-type isn't on a list of allowed values. This list
> includes "application/xml", but the actual response gives a content-type
> of "application/xml; charset=UTF-8", so it will always croak.
>
> My solution is to split the returned string at the first semicolon, and
> just take the first chunk:
>
> @conttypes = split( /([;])/, $response->header('Content-type'), );
> $conttype = $conttypes[0];
> croak "Invalid content type in response: $conttype\n" unless
> $rdf_content_types{$conttype};
>
> (original line was:
> croak 'Invalid content type in response:
> "'.$response->header('Content-type').'"' unless
> $rdf_content_types{$response->header('Content-type')};
> )
>
>
> These solutions are, I'm sure, not the most efficient, elegant or
> robust, but that's about the limit of my perl skills at the moment! I'd
> like to hear how these could be improved, or if anyone knows of any
> similar pitfalls I might encounter.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil Bett
>
>
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