Issue 107488 - inserting link to external data fails in vmware guest
Summary: inserting link to external data fails in vmware guest
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 3.3.0 or older (OOo)
Hardware: PC Linux, all
: P3 Minor (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: needhelp
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Reported: 2009-12-07 10:42 UTC by wyrobnik
Modified: 2014-03-09 06:49 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description wyrobnik 2009-12-07 10:42:28 UTC 
openoffice.org 3.1.1.
When run inside a vmware workstation virtual machine, inserting a link to 
external data fails by not showing any available tables/ranges in the external 
data source.
This applies only to remote URLs like http://www.google.com. Linking to e.g. 
local spreadsheets works.
I reproduced this error with vmware workstation 7 running on the following 
hosts: debian 5 (lenny), debian testing (squeeze), opensuse 11.2 with the 
following guest OS: ubuntu 9.10, debian testing (squeeze), fedora 12.

OOo 3.1.1. in a windows xp professional guest does not exhibit this error on 
any of the aforementioned host systems.
OOo 3.01 (OOO300m15 (Build:9379) in a Ubuntu 9.04 guest works without problems
Comment 1 Edwin Sharp 2013-12-02 20:24:32 UTC 
Insert - Link to External Data... fails also in physical machine.

AOO410m1(Build:9750)  -  Rev. 1539999
2013-11-09_04:08:11 - Rev. 1540252
Debian
Comment 2 Andre 2014-02-18 09:41:57 UTC 
Can anyone provide a document that helps to reproduce this bug?
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld 2014-02-22 08:03:32 UTC 
Most early version where the bug has been observed has to be used for VERSION

Missing description in Comment 1 what has been tested
Comment 4 Edwin Sharp 2014-03-08 17:21:06 UTC 
(In reply to Edwin Sharp from comment #1)
> Insert - Link to External Data... fails also in physical machine.
> 
> AOO410m1(Build:9750)  -  Rev. 1539999
> 2013-11-09_04:08:11 - Rev. 1540252
> Debian

Works OK with
AOO410m14(Build:9760)  -  Rev. 1573601
2014-03-03 17:47:48 (Mo, 03 Mrz 2014)
Win 7
No personal access to virtual machine.
Comment 5 Rainer Bielefeld 2014-03-09 06:49:08 UTC 
Tried on Virutualbox Ubuntu 12 with LibreOffice 3.5.7., I have no AOO on VirtualBox

1. Launch LibO (AOO) Calc and Firefox
2. In FF go to https://issues.apache.org/
3. Create a query, for example all Bug reports with Version AOO 3.4.0-dev will
  show a list (Table) with few bug reports
4. LiBO: Menu 'Insert -> Link to External Data -> copy - paste URL from
   FF URL Line 
   <https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?list_id=131024&query_format=advanced&version=3.4.0-dev> -> <Enter>'
   > After few moments "Select language" message appears
5. Select "English (USA)" [OK]
   > After few moments "Available tables / fields" pane will be filled
6. 'Select "Html tables" -> [OK]
   > After few moments list with bug reports appears in spreadsheet

This also works fine with AOO (I often use that function) on physical WIN machine and physical Linux machine (Comment 4)

   
Seems to be a minor problem affecting only few users (number of comments / votes).