Client testing (was Re: Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!))

Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Wed Aug 21 03:40:28 BST 2019
It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> >   I've made a stab at some initial tests at:
> > 
> > 	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/torture/
> > 
> >   There are currently 19 tests (0001 through 0019) and they only cover
> > resolving links (full URL, full path, relative path, relative path with ".."
> > and "." components), plus parsing of the MIME type.  Comments welcome,
> > especially with tests that may be unfair or are problematic.
> 
> Thanks for this!  I'm happy to report that AV-98 passes with flying
> colours.

  I've added two new tests.  Also, the index page lists all the tests
currently available so you can resume from where you last left off.

> Although, it's already made me realise something that we haven't specced
> any behaviour for at all: how should a server respond to an empty
> request?  i.e. just CRLF.  Is this invalid, such that it should trigger
> a 59 response?  Some servers do this, but others seem to treat it as a
> request for the root document.

  It'd be an exception to not send anything.  Other than that, I don't have
any real preference.

  -spc



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