Re: Can't use HTTPS and sourceforge info is dead

[Martin Rys <spleefer90 gmail com>]

It indeed doesn't support HTTPS. Thanks for the pointer.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues/41#note_420492

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 6:24 PM Kjell Ahlstedt <kjellahlstedt gmail com> wrote:
> The http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/ page is out-of-date. Report bugs in libxml++ to 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxmlplusplus/issues and bugs in libxml2 to 
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxml2/issues.
>
> The problem with HTTPS looks like a libxml2 bug, if it's a bug. It's possible that libxml2 doesn't support 
> HTTPS. You can ask on the xml mailing list, https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xml, xml gnome org
>
> /Kjell
>
> Den 2019-01-24 kl. 15:25, skrev Martin Rys via libxmlplusplus-list:
>
> First off, the sourceforge page http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/
> links to a bugtracker twice - the links are dead.
>
> There's a link it doesn't show here which is up -
> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libxmlplusplus/issues - do I just
> report issue here in the future?
>
> Anyways on to my issue, it looks like HTTPS doesn't work at all.
>
>     xmlpp::TextReader
> reader{"http://lyrics.wikia.com/api.php?action=lyrics&fmt=xml&artist=boa&song=duvet"};
>
> Will work just fine.
>
>     xmlpp::TextReader
> reader{"https://lyrics.wikia.com/api.php?action=lyrics&fmt=xml&artist=boa&song=duvet"};
>
> Will throw a cryptic error "Cannot instantiate underlying libxml2
> structure". Which might be a libxml2 issue, but I have no clue really.
>
> If I should report this to libxml2 instead, let me know.
>
> Martin
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