I read newsgroups too little (or perhaps just enough, or too much, depending), sorry for the kind-of-late response here...
On 10/10/2012 01:26 AM, ja...@hoppipolla.co.uk wrote: > Do you have a concrete suggestion for how to improve this, in a way that > works cross-browser? Well, the cross-domain part should be solvable using proxy autoconfig. The exact setup of that, and the primal server that would appear to exist for all ports/domains/etc. would have to be something each browser/engine configured when it ran tests. That seems unavoidable. I have suggested using PAC like this to WebKit people in the past; to the best of my knowledge they haven't actually done anything with the idea, just kept using localhost/127.0.0.1 to serve HTTP(S) tests. This is nowhere near enough to do interesting things like testing IDN, or subdomains (I'd be surprised if they don't have anything for testing this now, I haven't tried keeping up with what they do, but they might have something), or others. But it gets you a lot even still. > AIUI (which is not very well, so please correct me if I am wrong), the > Mozilla solution involves running a custom XPCOM-based web server, and thus > is not very portable. That's reasonably accurate, for some definitions of "portable". :-) At the time the web server was introduced I don't believe we had Python as a build requirement, so we couldn't have used some Python-based server (the option most likely to be somehow portable across browsers/engines). That probably could be addressed. It'd require rewriting away from ^headers^ files, which do nothing more than let you set custom headers/status when serving a static file. This probably wouldn't be too hard to do. It'd also require rewriting a bunch of SJS files (effectively CGI scripts). That'd be much harder. I believe some b2g/mobile testing has found the SJS thing to reduce the flexibility of how they run tests, but I don't know the details. Such a rewrite might nonetheless be worth it, especially if tests were more shareable as a result. I know I've written tests and run them against other browsers by spinning up a server, manually tweaking the PAC URL for some other browser, then running the tests there -- and gotten value out of doing so, as a poor-man's reference implementation. Jeff _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
