[Http-webtest-general] Re: Error messages from StatusTest

[Ilya M. <il...@ma...>]

>>>>> On Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:02:13 -0400, "William McKee" <wi...@kn...> said:

WM> Greetings Ilya,

Hi William,

WM> I received a couple of error messages today from a script which I'm 
WM> running every minute via a crontab. The errors indicate that WebTest 
WM> received a 500 - Internal Server Error message. However, I saw no such 
WM> errors in my server logs.

WM> I began to wonder whether WebTest just couldn't connect to the server. So 
WM> I created a sample script (see below) to try to test this theory. Indeed, 
WM> it seems that when WebTest cannot access a server (due to an invalid url 
WM> or a connection timeout), it is returning a 500 error.

WM> This response does not seem accurate. I'm not sure where this status code 
WM> is coming from but was able to track the actual error message to the 
WM> StatusTest.pm module. Could you test and verify my results? Do you use the 
WM> LWP to make the actual connections? Is this error message generated from 
WM> those libraries?

Yes, I'm using LWP for networking operations. Yes, LWP generates such
error messages itself. When it encounters an error it just generates
HTTP::Response object with status code 500. Frankly I don't know if it
is possible at all to distinguish errors received from a server from LWP
generated errors (other than using regexps on error messages what is
very error prone).

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Ilya Martynov (http://martynov.org/)