Yep, that's it. Changed it to HTTP and it worked fine. I must have changed the URL in otherwise working code at some point and forgotten about it. Oddly, using https://google.com still works for me, but not using https with my actual API URL. Either way, good to know that HTTPS isn't supported.
Thanks much for the help, aaron On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 6:02 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > On 15 Sep 2015 at 19:12:06, Aaron Hardy at AC ( > [email protected](mailto:[email protected])) > wrote: > > > I've updated that playground page with the actual URL of the API I'm > using - you'll see that the page comes back blank, but if you follow the > link in the browser, you get a page full of XML. So there must be something > about the data that the API is returning that XWiki doesn't like? > > This is because you’ve used HTTPS. If you use HTTP it works fine. > > ATM getURLContent() doesn’t support HTTPS. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > Agreed on using final releases - a full upgrade to 7.x is actually > planned soon. If I remember correctly, we got stuck on RC1 during the last > production upgrade cycle because there was some feature in 6.2 that we > really needed but the final release was still a few weeks out by our > deadline so we rolled the dice. Fortunately we haven't run into many issues > - which is probably why we're running behind on the upgrade :) > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:56 PM, [email protected](mailto: > [email protected]) wrote: > > > Seems to be working fine on > http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Aaron > (http://playground.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/Aaron) > > > > > > > > > > > Maybe there was a problem specifically on 6.2RC1 (BTW better use some > final releases…:)). I’d recommend 6.4.5 for the 6.x cycle. > > > > > > Thanks > > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > > On 15 Sep 2015 at 18:53:16, Aaron Hardy at AC ( > [email protected](mailto:[email protected])) > wrote: > > > > > > > Page syntax is XWiki 2.1 and the velocity is wrapped. Sorry, I > didn't include the full code for simplicity's sake. Here's a minimal > example cut and pasted from the editor (only thing changed is the actual > URL): > > > > > > > > ******************************* > > > > {{velocity}} > > > > > > > > #set($getURL = "https://www.example.com/api/example.mhtml?param=123 > ") > > > > $getURL > > > > > > > > #set($content = $xwiki.getURLContent($getURL)) > > > > $content > > > > > > > > {{/velocity}} > > > > > > > > If I set $getURL to "https://google.com";, it prints $content to the > page. With my API URL, I get nothing but the link in $getURL. But if I > follow that link, I get the expected XML page from the API, so I know the > URL is working correctly. > > > > > > > > I figured it was because $content is XML from the API, and HTML from > google, but using $services.xml.parse on the response doesn't work either. > > > > > > > > The strange part is that this is code that I haven't touched in > quite some time, and used to be working. The full code parses the XML > response and saves various elements to an HTML table on the page - but it > doesn't appear to be getting that far. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 12:41 PM, [email protected](mailto: > [email protected]) wrote: > > > > > Hi Aaron, > > > > > > > > > > On 15 Sep 2015 at 18:38:17, Aaron Hardy at AC ( > [email protected](mailto:[email protected] > )(mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > XWiki 6.2RC1. I have some velocity code using getURLContent() to > access an > > > > > > external API that appears to not be working after a server move, > despite > > > > > > working in the past. > > > > > > > > > > > > Something like this used to work: > > > > > > > > > > > > ***************************** > > > > > > #set($url = "https://www.example.com/api/example.mhtml?param=123 > ") > > > > > > #set($response = $xwiki.getURLContent($url)) > > > > > > > > > > > > #if ($response) > > > > > > #set($tags = > $services.xml.parse($response).getElementsByTagName('TAG')) > > > > > > $tags.length > > > > > > #end > > > > > > ***************************** > > > > > > > > > > > > Now, $response appears to be empty (nothing appears when written > to the > > > > > > page). Going directly to the API URL returns properly formatted > XML, so I > > > > > > know the API itself is working. And changing $url to > http://google.com also > > > > > > returns data. > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > > > > > > > What is the syntax of your page? Are you sure it’s XWiki Syntax > 2.0+ and you’re wrapping the velocity content with the {{velocity}} macro > for example (you didn’t show it in your example). > > > > > > > > > > $response is still there > > > > > > > > > > Thanks > > > > > -Vincent > > > > > > > > > > > aaron > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
