[css2xslfo-support] Authenticated http download, or mis-read filename..

[Brad C. <bk...@mu...>]

Hi,

I am using CSSToFOPNew

I need to convert html documents downloaded from a web server to PDF.

It would be nice if I could pass userid and password, and specify  
basicauth when using CSSToFOPNew to download
from a URL.

But because that doesn't work, I currently use curl to grab the html 
document and feed it to CSSToFOPNew as stdin.

That's been working well. 

But now I have an html document that includes some IMG tags, and those 
image downloads also require authentication.

So I've had to switch to using wget in recursive mode, something like:


wget -k -p --http-user=something --http-passwd=pass 
'http://some.company.com/Customer/data/rating_py/load_quote?stylesheet=waybill.xsl&quote_number=QCCR089421&orgid=ccr' 
-P /tmp/test -nH -nd -E

That gets me a directory listing like:

-rw-r--r--  1 bkc  bkc  15897 2007-10-31 10:39 945677310.gif
-rw-r--r--  1 bkc  bkc  10024 2007-10-31 10:39 
load_quote?stylesheet=waybill.xsl&quote_number=QCCR089421&orgid=ccr.1.html


So far so good, but now if I pass this file name to CSSToFOPNew, like


css2fop 
/tmp/test/load_quote\?stylesheet=waybill.xsl\&quote_number=QCCR089421\&orgid=ccr.1.html 
-pdf /tmp/y.pdf


Then CSSToFOPNew actually reads from stdin, not from the file. I'm using 
the css2fop shell script, and it looks like $fop_exec_args isn't 
escaping the ? or & in the filename argument.


I'm don't know enough about bash to say if that's the problem, but sh 
-xv shows this:

+ exec /usr/bin/java -classpath <classpath> be.re.css.CSSToFOPNew 
/tmp/test/load_quote?stylesheet=waybill.xsl&quote_number=QCCR089421&orgid=ccr.1.html 
-pdf /tmp/y.pdf


(I've replaced the real classpath with <classpath>)

Is it obvious to anyone why CSSToFOPNew reads from stdin given the above 
command arguments?

And how difficult would it be to add http authentication functionality 
to CSSToFOPNew?



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Brad Clements,                bk...@mu...    (315)268-1000
http://www.murkworks.com                          
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