Re: URL Access Mgr and Chinese Char. Sets
Re: URL Access Mgr and Chinese Char. Sets
- Subject: Re: URL Access Mgr and Chinese Char. Sets
- From: Marc Krochmal <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 14:44:43 -0700
Andy,
The fact that Netscape doesn't recognize the authority makes me think
that this is definitely the cause of the -6986 error. Unfortunately,
there's no way to force URL Access to accept this certificate, so your
only hope is to convince the person in charge of the server to use a
different certificate. Sorry.
-Marc
On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 12:20 PM, Andy Axelrod wrote:
Marc,
Thanks for the helpful suggestion!
I believe you're correct that the problem lies with a certificate issue
when accessing these sites (which as it turns out redirect to HTTPS
sites). I tried running my test on OS 9.2.2 running URL Access Manager
v2.4.1, but unfortuantely the problem still persists. However, it looks
like the problem is not due to an expired certificate, but rather, the
certificate authority is not being recognized. If I simply run Netscape
and access the site(s), Netscape complains that it doesn't recognize the
authority who signed the certificate. Is it possible this certificate
problem might be tripping up URL Access with the same error (-6986)? If
so, is there any mechanism to force URL Access Manager to accept the
certificate?
Thanks again for all your help!
Andy
Hi Andy,
I've never heard of a problem with non-Roman characters, but I've heard
of people getting the -6986 error, and I don't think the error really
means "can't find the specified environment". In the case of URL
Access, you may see this error when doing HTTPS if the certificate on
the server has expired. In URL Access version 2.4.1, the behavior was
changed to allow expired certificates by default so it would be
interesting if you could update your copy of URL Access and see if the
error goes away. I believe the newer URL Access comes with Mac OS 9.2,
but you should be able to take the newer version and install it on a
9.1 system for testing purposes.
-Marc
On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 10:11 PM,
email@hidden wrote:
'm attempting to use the URL Access Manager on 9.1 to retrieve web
pages
using HTTP and HTTPS protocols. The URL Access Manager seems to work
fine
on web pages which contain the standard Roman character set.
Unfortunately, though, it seems to have a problem when I attempt to
retrieve a web page that contains Chinese characters. (It may be it
has a
problem with any non-Roman character set, but I'm only concerned with
Chinese for my app.).
When I attempt to access a web page which contains Chinese language
content, I run into a problem with the Mac Language Analysis kit. It
appears the URL Access Manager detects the Chinese characters in the
web
page and automatically invokes the Language Analysis kit to do some
sort
of interpretation of the character data. Unfortunately, if you're not
running on a Mac system that contains the Chinese Language Kit (or a
Chinese MacOS installation), the URL Access Manager fails the web page
retrieval with the error -6986, which means "can't find the specified
environment". I assume from this error that it's looking for the
Chinese
language dictionary, etc. In our application, we don't need to have
the
characters interpreted/translated, all we need to do is fetch the
"raw"
web page.
So, two questions:
1. Is there any way to disable the operation of the Language Analysis
kit
so we can avoid tripping up the URL Access Manager?
2. If there's no way to disable it, does anyone know where we can find
the current version of the Chinese Language Kit? I know Claris used to
sell it, but now it doesn't appear to have a home.
Thanks in advance for any help!
Andy Axelrod
email@hidden
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