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: Andy Axelrod <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 12:20:14 -0700
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
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Hi Andy,
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>
I've never heard of a problem with non-Roman characters, but I've heard
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of people getting the -6986 error, and I don't think the error really
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means "can't find the specified environment". In the case of URL
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Access, you may see this error when doing HTTPS if the certificate on
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the server has expired. In URL Access version 2.4.1, the behavior was
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changed to allow expired certificates by default so it would be
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interesting if you could update your copy of URL Access and see if the
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error goes away. I believe the newer URL Access comes with Mac OS 9.2,
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but you should be able to take the newer version and install it on a
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9.1 system for testing purposes.
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-Marc
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>
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On Friday, June 7, 2002, at 10:11 PM,
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email@hidden wrote:
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>
> 'm attempting to use the URL Access Manager on 9.1 to retrieve web
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> pages
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> using HTTP and HTTPS protocols. The URL Access Manager seems to work
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> fine
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> on web pages which contain the standard Roman character set.
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> Unfortunately, though, it seems to have a problem when I attempt to
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> retrieve a web page that contains Chinese characters. (It may be it
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> has a
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> problem with any non-Roman character set, but I'm only concerned with
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> Chinese for my app.).
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>
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> When I attempt to access a web page which contains Chinese language
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> content, I run into a problem with the Mac Language Analysis kit. It
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> appears the URL Access Manager detects the Chinese characters in the
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> web
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> page and automatically invokes the Language Analysis kit to do some
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> sort
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> of interpretation of the character data. Unfortunately, if you're not
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> running on a Mac system that contains the Chinese Language Kit (or a
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> Chinese MacOS installation), the URL Access Manager fails the web page
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> retrieval with the error -6986, which means "can't find the specified
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> environment". I assume from this error that it's looking for the
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> Chinese
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> language dictionary, etc. In our application, we don't need to have the
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> characters interpreted/translated, all we need to do is fetch the "raw"
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> web page.
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>
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> So, two questions:
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>
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> 1. Is there any way to disable the operation of the Language Analysis
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> kit
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> so we can avoid tripping up the URL Access Manager?
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>
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> 2. If there's no way to disable it, does anyone know where we can find
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> the current version of the Chinese Language Kit? I know Claris used to
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> sell it, but now it doesn't appear to have a home.
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>
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> Thanks in advance for any help!
>
>
>
> Andy Axelrod
>
> email@hidden
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