[gdal-dev] issue with Virtual Format and a remote CSV service

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Martin Ouellet <geomartino <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> 
> Thanks Even for the quick response.  Is it ok to escape : 
(with %3A) and
the comma (with %2C) in the vrt?even with the prefix ,
 I received another error:
> OGR error. Failed to open datasource `/vsicurl/http://<my
server>:8080/solr-geo2/collection2/select?q=*%3A*&
fl=PHOTO_LATITUDE%2CPHOTO_LONGITUDE%2CID&wt=csv'

Hi,

I put two test files here:
http://latuviitta.org/documents/rename%20test.gml (with space, %20)
http://latuviitta.org/documents/rename%26test.gml (with &, %26)

Reading the first one succeeds through this VRT:

<OGRVRTDataSource> 
<OGRVRTLayer name="m_asalue"> 
<SrcDataSource>/vsicurl/http://latuviitta.org/documents
/rename%20test.gml</SrcDataSource>
</OGRVRTLayer> 
</OGRVRTDataSource>

Save and test with "ogrinfo ogrvrttest2.xml -ro -al". Keep 
SrcDataSource in one line when saving.

It was too hard a challenge for me to write a working VRT file for the
latter one with &. Who will be the first lucky one? All that must 
be done is to guess the right syntax to place "&" character cleverly encoded
instead of _ENC_ in "rename_ENC_test.gml"

I have tried:
- URL-encoding to %26
- XML-encoding to &
- XML-encoding and then URL-encoding to %26amp%3B


-Jukka Rahkonen-