Re: FYI: New tests for HttpURLConnection

[Wolfgang Baer <WBaer at gmx dot de>]

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Baer <WBaer@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> 
> Wolfgang> One existing test is removed as the used HTTP server doesn't
> Wolfgang> send the tested header key anymore and therefore this test
> Wolfgang> wrongly fails.
> 
> David Daney had the interesting idea that we could have a mini http
> server inside of Mauve, which we could then use to test all the http
> modes we care about.  Specifically what he had suggested was encoding
> the desired response into the request, so we could check 404s,
> redirects, chunking, etc.

Thats definitly the way to go.
> 
> Just in case you're really motivated to hack in this area ...  :-)

Not at this time. I just tried to get the bugs fixed I found during
working on the IPP backend for printing and which prevented me from
hacking.

Maybe after printing is finished :-)

Wolfgang