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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-09-20 22:16:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2003-09-20 22:16:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 0aab0020573771e224ebc0e94b2c5adf565fb4f6 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a43aecd7a038128b081fdf83c22c4b9e7a937eb /Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py | |
| parent | c7c516aa5140d255f18ffd2e8569434f0904f5db (diff) | |
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SF patch 809915: Fix bogus address to hopefully always break.
test_bad_address(): Recover from that VeriSign thought it would boost
its corporate coffers to start resolving http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/.
Bugfix candidate -- although the bug is more VeriSign's than Python's!
Diffstat (limited to 'Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py')
| -rw-r--r-- | Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py b/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py index 0786e06..80761df 100644 --- a/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py +++ b/Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py @@ -103,7 +103,14 @@ class urlopenNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase): # Make sure proper exception is raised when connecting to a bogus # address. self.assertRaises(IOError, - urllib.urlopen, "http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/") + # SF patch 809915: In Sep 2003, VeriSign started + # highjacking invalid .com and .net addresses to + # boost traffic to their own site. This test + # started failing then. One hopes the .invalid + # domain will be spared to serve its defined + # purpose. + # urllib.urlopen, "http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/") + urllib.urlopen, "http://www.python.invalid/") class urlretrieveNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase): """Tests urllib.urlretrieve using the network.""" |