Re: [xml] how to read from network by xmlReadFile

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 08:55 +0900, ääåå wrote:
> In a message dated Wed, 24 Nov 2004 19:56:30 +0900,
>  <veillard redhat com> wrote:
[...]
> veillard>> but, error message (fail to load HTTP resource) returns.
> veillard>
> veillard>  Works for me
> veillard>
> veillard>paphio:~ -> python
> veillard>Python 2.2.3 (#1, Aug  8 2003, 08:44:02)
> veillard>[GCC 3.2.3 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-13)] on linux2
> veillard>Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
> veillard>>>> import libxml2
> veillard>>>> doc = libxml2.readFile('http://veillard.com/test.xml', None, 0)
> veillard>>>> doc.serialize()
> veillard>'<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>\n<doc/>\n'
> veillard>>>>
> veillard>
> veillard>either your libxml2 is compiled without HTTP support, or the HTTP
>
> Is Supporting HTTP optional?
> My. platform is gentoo. and I do nothing to libxml2, but emerge them.

A simple way to check if you have HTTP support built in is to look at
the output of 'xmllint --version'; the output should mention HTTP there.

Cheers,
Malcolm