[twill] testing a page that returns a 50X error code

[Jordan Baker]

Hi Titus,

I just upgraded to 0.9b1 and it works fine now.  I was previously  
running 0.8.5 so I guess something changed.

Thanks again!

-jordan.



On 1-May-07, at 12:45 PM, Titus Brown wrote:

> Hi Jordan,
>
> that should work in twill!  It does with 40x; maybe the 50x error  
> isn't
> handled properly... hmm, well, '500' is tested (see
> "tests/test-http-codes.twill"), so that presumably works ;).
>
> I have to dig into quixote, my test server framework, to figure out  
> how
> to generate a 503 error.  So I can't test it right away.  But  
> HTTPErrors
> should be caught by twill properly, so this is definitely a bug in
> twill.
>
> Ping me if it's urgent and I'll do it today, otherwise sometime this
> week I hope.
>
> cheers,
> --titus
>
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:55:59AM -0400, Jordan Baker wrote:
> -> Hi folks,
> ->
> -> Trying to use twill to test a page that returns an HTML page  
> with a 503
> -> response code.
> ->
> -> Here's my twill code:
> ->
> ->    go http://server/page_returns_error
> ->    code 503
> ->    notfind "some string"
> ->
> -> It seems that urrllib2 is returning an HTTPError even though a  
> fully
> -> formed HTML page was generated and is visible via a regular  
> browser.
> ->
> -> I started to poke around a bit and it seems that it might be  
> possible to
> -> get around this by providing your own opener to urllib2 but I  
> thought
> -> I'd check this list first to see if anyone had suggestions.
> ->
> -> Cheers,
> ->
> -> -jordan.
> ->
> ->
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