[MonoDevelop] Unable to run MD (svn 121491)

[Michael Hutchinson]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 6:21 PM, Paul <paul at all-the-johnsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be catching the same error when trying to run MD (svn 121491)
>
> Unhandled Exception: System.NotSupportedException:
> http://mono.ximian.com/monodevelop-news/1.9.1/news.xml
>  at System.Net.WebRequest.GetCreator (System.String prefix) [0x0007c]
> in /home/paul/rpmbuild/BUILD/mono-121536/mcs/class/System/System.Net/WebRequest.cs:369
>  at System.Net.WebRequest.Create (System.Uri requestUri) [0x00017]
> in /home/paul/rpmbuild/BUILD/mono-121536/mcs/class/System/System.Net/WebRequest.cs:268
>  at System.Net.WebRequest.Create (System.String requestUriString)
> [0x00011]
> in /home/paul/rpmbuild/BUILD/mono-121536/mcs/class/System/System.Net/WebRequest.cs:261
>  at MonoDevelop.WelcomePage.WelcomePageView.updateNewsXmlThread ()
> [0x0001a]
> in /home/paul/rpmbuild/BUILD/monodevelop-1.9.1/src/addins/WelcomePage/WelcomePageView.cs:118
>
> At this point, MD dies. I've build it against mono (svn 121536) using
> mono-addins 0.4 (not from svn as this does not build currently, though
> rebuilt against mono svn).
>
> Is the problem in mono, MD or somewhere else?

Looks to me like a Mono issue -- I'd guess that WebRequest.Create is
passing the full URL to WebRequest.GetCreator instead of just the
prefix.

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Michael Hutchinson
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