That's a convenience to catch strings that should be URL. URL will work, of
course. I'll add the https.
Best Regards,
Paulo Soares
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Malte Erikson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 13:39
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [iText-questions] Problems adding images to PDF from an
> URL
>
> On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 18:35, Paulo Soares wrote:
>
> Actually, there's a bug in iText when trying to create an Image using
> getInstance( String )!
>
> The method toURL in Image.java starts with the following rows:
>
> public static URL toURL(String filename) throws MalformedURLException {
> if (filename.startsWith("file:/") || filename.startsWith("http://";)) {
> return new URL(filename);
> }
>
> You'll need to add an 'filename.startsWith("https://";)' in the if
> statement to support loading images through a secure link. I fixed this
> in my servlet by creating my own URL instance and feeding getInstance()
> with that instead!
>
> / Malte
>
>
> > You need JSSE to support HTTPS. That support already exists in java 1.4.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Paulo Soares
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wegley, Harry L [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 17:30
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: [iText-questions] Problems adding images to PDF from an URL
> > >
> > > I have not been able to successfully embed a jpeg obtained from an URL
> > > into the PDF created by iText. We have had 2 programmers looking at
> this
> > > problem for a couple of weeks and can trace the problem back to iText
> or
> > > something that iText is passing to java.net.URL.
> > >
> > > Here's basically what we are doing and what we see:
> > > 1. Create a string that contains the URL to produce out chart (code
> at
> > > the URL uses Jfreechart)
> > > 2. Use the string to create an URL which is passed to
> Image.getInstance()
> > > 3. Image.getInstance() throws an exception
> > >
> > > Here's some example code:
> > > String imageUrl = new StringBuffer(128).append(myinfoUrl)
> > > .append("/paysummary/DisplayBarChart.jsp")
> > > .append("?userid=").append(userid_)
> > > .toString();
> > > Image barChart = Image.getInstance( new URL(imageUrl);
> > >
> > >
> > > Note that URL string stored in "imageUrl" both looks correct and works
> > > when typed in a browser window -- the URLs look like:
> > >
> https://server03.ne.boe.com:8094/paysummary/DisplayBarChart.jsp?userid=122
> > > 34
> > >
> > > The URL returns a jpeg image of a chart (produced by Jfreechart). I
> can
> > > run the code using Jbuilder from my desktop machine (which uses http,
> not
> > > https) -- it works fine and the chart is put into the PDF.
> > > But, if I put my java code on our server (which uses https), the
> > > getInstance method throws an exception. I have seen 2 different
> errors: 1)
> > > stating that the URL does not look like a jpeg and 2) a Malformed URL
> > > exception is thrown in java.net.URL.
> > >
> > > I work on a fairly large development project within Boeing. At this
> point
> > > we are frustrated to the point of giving up on iText completely unless
> we
> > > can get this problem resolved.
> > >
> > > Has anyone seen similar problems with putting images obtained from an
> Url
> > > into an iText-produced PDF file? Do you have any recommendations of
> things
> > > to try -- we have exhausted our known options. By the way, putting the
> > > image in the file system and opening it from there works, but that is
> not
> > > an option for the production version of our application -- we need to
> get
> > > the image from an URL.
> > >
> > > --Harry Wegley
> > >
> > >
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