Windows: Could not fetch... and encoding problems using slidy

[KaiHufenbach]

Hi,

I am trying to use pandoc on Windows 7, latest version 1.13.2,

Used the following MarkDown for testing purposes. I also attached pictures of outputs.
The following is recognizable:

• Special chars seem to break, using slidy
• Using slidy with --self-contained is not even possible due to download problems (tested link in browser, works, also deactivated windows firewall)

% Test

# Test
öäü

# Test
öäü


# Test 


<!-- 

Breaks with:
pandoc.exe: Could not fetch http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/styles\../graph
ics/nofold-dim.gif
StatusCodeException (Status {statusCode = 404, statusMessage = "Not Found"}) [("
    pandoc test.md -o test_slidy.html -t slidy --self-contained --smart 

Does not provide any slides, also breaks special Characters:
    pandoc test.md -o test_slidy.html -t slidy --smart 

Works!
    pandoc test.md -o test.html -t html --self-contained --smart 
-->

[mpickering]

For #2 you might need to set your browser encoding to UTF-8.

I suspect that your problem is that the slidy utl is protocol agnostic. (ie starts with //) This means that the same url can be used for http or https but fails to render locally. You can try adding a protocol and then it might work correctly.

[KaiHufenbach]

Inserted exactly this URL to Internet Explorer: http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/styles\../graphics/nofold-dim.gif
Which works perfectly. Sorry, but I could not follow exactly what you mean. In my *.md there is no other URL.

I checked the *_slidy.html which looks like:

It seems the slidy html is not completed, so changing the browser settings to utf-8 does would not have any effect (and even do not bring slidy). On the other hand the ordinary HTML output works.

<div id="test" class="slide section level1">
<h1>Test</h1>
<p>öäü</p>
</div>
<div id="test-1" class="slide section level1">
<h1>Test</h1>
<p>öäü</p>
</div>
<div id="test-2" class="slide section level1">
<h1>Test</h1>
<!-- 


Breaks with:
pandoc.exe: Could not fetch http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy2/styles\../graph
ics/nofold-dim.gif
StatusCodeException (Status {statusCode = 404, statusMessage = "Not Found"}) [("
    pandoc test.md -o test_slidy.html -t slidy --self-contained --smart 

Does not provide any slides, also breaks special Characters:
    pandoc test.md -o test_slidy.html -t slidy --smart 

Works!
    pandoc test.md -o test.html -t html --self-contained --smart 
-->
</div>

[jgm]

This is now fixed, it seems.