Re: [Straw-devel] Image Bug

[Scott Douglas-Watson]

Jan Alonzo wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 02:46, Scott Douglas-Watson wrote:
>  
>
> > Hi
> >    
>
> Hello,
>
>  
>
> > characters in start tag: u'@microsoft.com \\nhref', at line 37, column 37"
> > src/lib/ImageCache.py:36:add_refer: something went wrong: only supports 
> > HTTP requests
> >  File "/usr/bin/straw", line 34, in ?
> >    s.mainloop()
> >  File "src/lib/Main.py", line 319, in mainloop
> >    gtk.main()
> >  File "src/lib/SubscribeDialog.py", line 175, in location_page_forward
> >    self._found_feeds = self.find_site(url)
> >  File "src/lib/SubscribeDialog.py", line 298, in find_site
> >    ps = self.parse_feed(data, feed)
> >  File "src/lib/SubscribeDialog.py", line 257, in parse_feed
> >    parsed = straw.SummaryParserMP().parse(data, feed)
> >  File "src/lib/SummaryParserMP.py", line 120, in parse
> >    item.add_image(i)
> >  File "src/lib/SummaryItem.py", line 51, in add_image
> >    self._add_image(image_name, restore = False)
> >  File "src/lib/SummaryItem.py", line 47, in _add_image
> >    straw.ImageCache.cache.add_refer(image_name, restore, self)
> >  File "src/lib/ImageCache.py", line 36, in add_refer
> >    logtb("something went wrong: ", str(e))
> > src/lib/SummaryParserMP.py:123:parse: u'Exception Occurred: only 
> > supports HTTP requests'
> > a local file in the description (ie 
> > href="file://somewhere/on/my/d/drive"). This causes an exception to be 
> > raised in ConnectionManager.request() (URLFetch.py line 58) which I 
> > think is fine, we just need to catch it again and handle it gracefully.  
> > I think this should either be caught in ImageCache.py (see lines 24 - 
> > 37) or in SummaryItem.py (lines 46 - 49) and the image assigned to the 
> >    
>
> We can do that but I really want to know why it is spitting an
> exception. Can you isolate the gotdotnet feed? I just had a clean
> checkout and all seems well here that's why if you can isolate the feed,
> that would be ace.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>  
Here's the problem feed -
http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/BradA/blogxbrowsing.asmx/GetRss?

The problem is the URL fetcher only uses protocol http:// and in the
feed the person references a local file in the image tag, protocol file://

Cheers,
Scott