[gobo-eiffel-develop] Problem in the http client/URI resolver

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I just managed to build Gestalt with gec (using the new eposix
alpha build), and I did a few tests, but when I tried an
identity transformation of http://www.w3.org (a good source for
guarent5eed wel-formed xhtml), I get:

Fatal error:
http://www.gobosoft.com/eiffel/gobo/gexslt/extension#BUILD_ERROR:
?:1:1:URI http://www.w3.org PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"

which to me looks like a failure to parse the DOCTYPE statement
correctly.

If I view the page in Firefox, and then select View Source, the first
two lines are:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">

which certainly contains a good ExternalID.

So I saved the text to disk, and repeated the transformation, this
time using a file: URI to my saved local copy - this worked OK.

I then tried compiling with ISE 6.1 in workbench mode and repeated the
test.

It turns out that the problem is due to the missing / on the end of
the URI:
precondition violated - path not empty in {EPX_HTTP_10_CLIENT}.get

This seems a reasonable precondition to me. If the / is presnt, then a
path of / gets passed to get and all is well.

In the HTTP URI resolver, I am passing {UT_URI}.path to
{EPX_HTTP_10_CLIENT}.get.

Who is wrong here? Is it the implementation of {UT_URI}.path, or
should the HTTP resolver be checking for an empty path, and passing
"/" in that case?

Franck?
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire