Dealing with 'external' resources and Global configuration

Hi all -

Looking for comments or reactions for the following topic, describing  
a current failing and a possible way forward (2.0+)

== Dealing with 'external' resources and Global configuration ==

Background (please correct me if this is wrong):
httpunit effectively consists of a pseudoclient and a pseudoserver -  
which itself can be act as a servlet container (like Tomcat/Jetty)

At present external (outside the pseudoserver) resources cannot be  
fetched by the pseudoclient in http-unit. At present resources that  
are external (e.g. <script href="http://adsense.google.com/ 
blahblahblah" /> ) httpunit just tries to fetch the same path (/ 
blahblahblah) from the pseudoserver - which fails, with an error  
(providing the resource is automatically retrieved, as for scriptable  
objects.

Wolfgang was proposing (if I got it right...) that it  would be good  
if there was a  way to configure httpunit GLOBALLY, rather than just  
programmatically per test. There would be sensible defaults if there  
was no configuration, or if the config option was missing.

In the case of external resources, the default configuration would be  
that external resources are treated as warnings - any external  
resource found would trigger some kind of warning (printout to  
stderr?) but wouldn't cause a failure

If you wanted you could then make external resources: always fail...  
always be ignored...  stay as default (warning) ... or be fetched from  
the external resource. And then even more usefully,  you could  
optionally configure this on a per-url basis (maybe like log4j's conf  
file handles per package logging options) - so that for example you  
skip downloading things from google.com (ignore) but fetch things from  
your own assets server...

(These are some rough notes from a discussion with Wolfgang - there  
will be another separate email on different aspects to keep the thread  
discussions readable.)

Thoughts/ comments?

kind regards

Tim

Tim Diggins
http://red56.co.uk/people/tim
[email protected]

tel +44 (0)7515 931 642








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