Re: [Http-webtest-general] HTTP::WebTest::Request bug?

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

>>>>> "BW" == Brian Webb <bw...@ya...> writes:

BW> Hello,

Hello,

BW> I noticed that HTTP::WebTest::Request module reformats that url
BW> during the tests. I have run into a problem when using wt to test
BW> web pages that redirect you to another web page.

BW> I am trying to test the return code of a url that looks something
BW> like:

BW> http://website.com?http://website2.com?var=val

BW> It appears that HTTP::WebTest::Request::uri is encoding everything
BW> after the first question mark. This behavior is different than
BW> HTTP::Request::uri and consequently, web test reports a 403 error
BW> instead of a 200. If I manually remove the uri method from
BW> HTTP::WebTest::Request (so it will use the method from the base
BW> class), then the test returns a 200 code.

BW> Is there an easy way to tell HTTP::WebTest::Request::uri to behave
BW> the same as HTTP::Request? Is there another way to get the test to
BW> succeed for this url?  Thanks.

Thanks you for your bug report. This have been fixed in CVS version
[1] which will be released soon. In the new version of HTTP::WebTest
it will not modify test URL unless it is doing GET request and test
parameter 'params' is specified in a test specification.

[1] http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=21337

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