Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] localhost_tests failures

[Divye K. <div...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 7:19 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Divye,
>
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 15:43, Divye Kapoor <div...@gm...> wrote:
> >>
> >> Attached is a patch for the modified test.xml and adjusted
> >> localhost_tests.cpp. Unfortunately, TortoiseSVN seems to have trouble
> >> handling changes only in line endings, so whoever commits this may
> >> need to alter test.xml manually to make it use Unix line-endings.
> >
> > I would not advise such a commit as it atleast prevents *us* from munging
> > line endings while handling text bodies.
>
> I'm not sure I understand... Are you saying it could mask bugs in
> cpp-netlib? Could you elaborate?
>

As of now, we are not touching the response body given by the server. Right
now, we know that the python server is returning fewer characters of the
body than expected and we are retaining it bit for bit, allowing the test to
fail on Windows. However, if we do need to process the body at some other
stage, say to support multipart responses,  it would be helpful to retain
the test with the CRLF line endings to ensure that non-native line endings
are being processed properly by the library while handling the body.

Divye

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