#3 Inline images don't work ?

[Amit Chakradeo]

The inline images are not showed correctly
(They are there in this feed e.g.
http://mena.typepad.com/dollarshort/index.rdf
) I always see broken image picture.

Is it because I am behind a firewall which pears does
not and should know about ?

If I choose "Remove Images" options, it is correctly
displayed as image link and on clicking, it does take
to the correct image in browser.

[Andrei]

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I don't know why the firewall would block images, but not
the feed itself. Perhaps it just takes too long for you to
download the images and the connection times out? Because it
works here just fine.

[Amit Chakradeo]

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I don't think it's a timeout issue, I have quite a fast
connection (corporate LAN). Can I add anything to add more
debug output ?

--Amit

[Andrei]

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But the other side seemed pretty slow when I tried it on my
1024 kbps connection yesterday - speed seems ok now. Could
you measure how much time passes between you selecting an
item and the appearance of the broken image picture in the
text pane? You can use an ordinary watch for this, doesn't
have to be accurate to the millisecond. If it's around 10
seconds, the connection is timing out.

You could also try this: go to the directory where you
installed Pears. Start the program by double-clicking on the
pears.py file instead of the "Pears for Windows.bat" file.
The application will start up with a console. Now go to that
feed and try to open an item with an image in it. Do you get
any feedback in the console?

If neither of the two above is the case, I'd like to know
what versions of Python and wxPython you're using (you can
look them up in the Pears about screen (F2)).

[Amit Chakradeo]

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I tried both your suggestions:
There is no timelag between selecting item and displaying
the item with broken image. It appears instantly.

I tried the console method as well. I do not see anything at
all (except for this startup message:
<pearsapp.MainFrame instance; proxy of C++ wxFrame instance
at _2d04fd0_wxFrame_
p>
)

Do I need any image parsing library installed ?

Here are the version:
python 2.3.3
wxpython 2.4.2.4
Pears 1.7 b13

Which file is the code to display image by the way ? I am
new to python, but it is quite readable, maybe I can spot
something.

When you say it works, did you check with proxies (and no
direct connection ?)

I will also check this at home where I have direct
connection and report.

[Amit Chakradeo]

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Confirm that inline images work fine from home (without
proxy server)

[Andrei]

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There is no particular code responsible for image downloads,
it's done automatically by the wxPython libraries (the ones
responsible for everything else in the GUI) - in this case
the wxHtmlWindow. Anyway, if it was a (wx)Python bug, you'd
either get tracebacks or it would take some time for the
image to appear.

Regarding proxy: how did you get Pears to go through a
proxy? It doesn't have proxy setup options. So I suppose
it's either that, or the images are served on a different
port, which is blocked by the firewall.

[Jarek Zgoda]

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As for proxy: it is sufficient to specify HTTP_PROXY and/or
HTTP_PROXY_PORT environment variable and urllib will use this.
See urllib documentation.