Dane Springmeyer

Where did you place your tilemill.app? Also does your mac user have administrative abilities on this machine?

@BergWerkGIS @bsudekum - I was able to debug this specific problem with @IReese at FOSS4G. The problem is that the windows build @IReese was provided by @bsudekum was leaving two...

@IReese - yes, would be great if you could test the above build and let us know how it works. Great work @bsudekum. I also added some comments and questions...

If you restart TileMill does this error happen again? What exactly were you trying to do when it occurred?

Okay, thanks for the details. Which plugin was it specifically? Also, can you check your logs(https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/manual/usage/) and paste them here for me to see if there are any obvious errors?

@shprabin ^^ did you see my question?

@mikehearn - I'm working on getting an updated build out. This is a pre-release version (http://tilemill.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/TileMill-0.10.2.zip). Can you download that and let me know if it works for you?

Would it be possible to provide a working testcase?

No, it does not make sense for Mapnik itself to speak in http(s). Instead what you want to do is use a solid, existing http(s) client to download the data...

> faced with the problem that the configuration xml got too big, was truncated and could not be parsed anymore That is odd. Could it have been a problem escaping...