Re: fo:external-graphic problem when using HTTPS - EntityResolver?

[Johan �brandt]

Hi Jeremias,
Thank you for answering,
I am already using urls, i.e 
http://host.domain.com/webapp/images/foo.gif works, but 
https://host.domain.com/webapp/images/foo.gif does not.

> Currently there's no possibility to set or use an EntityResolver (or
> similar) but it's on the todo list.
Nice to hear, it would be usefull on occasion.
Br - Johan
Jeremias Maerki wrote:
Currently there's no possibility to set or use an EntityResolver (or
similar) but it's on the todo list. In the meantime you could try to set
the baseURL in Java code like this:
Configuration.put("baseDir", "https://myserver/somedir";);
But please be aware that this currently only works in the CVS version of
FOP (branch 'fop-0_20_2-maintain'). The current release only support
local directories, no URLs. This will be in the upcoming 0.20.5 release.
On 19.11.2002 13:51:55 Johan �brandt wrote:
Hi,
I have the following external graphic declaration in a XML file:
<fo:external-graphic src="url('{$base-url}/images/logo.jpg')" 
height="30pt" width="170pt"/>

I render it to a servlet outputstream using:
Driver driver;
driver = new Driver( new InputSource( reader ), out ); 
driver.setRenderer( Driver.RENDER_PDF );
driver.run();

This works just fine when having the server configured for HTTP but when 
using HTTPS, it fails with error:

Error while creating area : Error with image URL: unknown certificate 
and no base directory is specified

I think this is because I am using a own generated certificate and not a 
real certificate from f ex Verisign. I know that I can either create my 
own SecurityManager (effectively disabling security), or use a real 
certificate. I would however like to circumvent all such hazzles and 
retrieve the image in some other means instead, intially I tried to use 
a custom EntityResolver, but I doesnt seem like it is used for image url 
resolution:

i.e.
driver = new Driver( new InputSource( reader ), out ); 
driver.setRenderer( Driver.RENDER_PDF );

XMLReader xmlReader = XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader();
xmlReader.setEntityResolver( new CustomEntityResolver() );
driver.setXMLReader( xmlReader );
driver.run();
Does anyone have any tips how to get the EntityResolver approach to 
work, or know any other way to achieve something similar.


Jeremias Maerki


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