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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-09-20 22:16:26 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2003-09-20 22:16:26 (GMT)
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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!
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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py9
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."""