Are your images located on the same server as FOP? If yes, you could
access the files directly by filesystem if you set baseDir to something
like:
Configuration.put("baseDir", "C:\tomcat\webapps\webapp");Surely not a clean solution but faster than going via http/https and it could work for the moment. On 19.11.2002 14:19:33 Johan �brandt wrote: > 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
