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Re: [Tools-discuss] Why does xml2rfc download over HTTP?

Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ca> Sat, 02 February 2019 17:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tools-discuss] Why does xml2rfc download over HTTP?
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Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote:
    > Right.  However, who ever fixes this should keep in mind that software
    > installed on a laptop does not always have access to a good set of root
    > certificates (the browser is likely to, but Python software may not
    > have access to the browser set), so it would be useful to have an
    > escape hatch of some kind (preferably through environment variables, so
    > complex Makefiles don’t have to be touched).

+1

    > Maybe adding a little bit of robustness to the download process (e.g.,
    > don’t cache it if it isn’t valid XML) would also help.

That would have also solved the problem, which I've also experienced.

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