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[Httpunit-commit] CVS: httpunit/doc faq.html,1.12,1.13 release_notes.txt,1.120,1.121
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From: Russell G. <rus...@us...> - 2002-07-25 11:19:21
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Update of /cvsroot/httpunit/httpunit/doc In directory usw-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv28540/doc Modified Files: faq.html release_notes.txt Log Message: Rajan Narasimhan: fixed problem with base URLs containing slash in a query string Index: faq.html =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/httpunit/httpunit/doc/faq.html,v retrieving revision 1.12 retrieving revision 1.13 diff -u -r1.12 -r1.13 --- faq.html 20 Jun 2002 15:39:29 -0000 1.12 +++ faq.html 25 Jul 2002 11:19:18 -0000 1.13 @@ -7,15 +7,14 @@ <OL> <LI><A HREF="#Cannot unzip">Why can't I unzip the download library?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#org.xml.sax">What is the org.xml.sax package?</A></LI> -<LI><A HREF="#meterware.com">Where is meterware.com?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#javascript">How do I use HttpUnit to test my pages that use JavaScript?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="sslfaq.html">Does HttpUnit support https?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#proxy">Can I use HttpUnit through a proxy server?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#charset">Why isn't HttpUnit handling my non-English pages?</A></LI> -<LI><A HREF="#utf8">HttpUnit fails with an IllegalArgumentException: sun.io.CharToByteUTF-8, what do I do?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#buttons">HttpUnit is not finding the buttons and parameters in my forms. What is wrong?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#reload">Why do I get java.lang.IllegalAccessError when calling getResponse()?</A></LI> <LI><A HREF="#badPost">Why doesn't my servlet see parameters on a POST request?</A></LI> +<LI><A HREF="#hidden">Why can't I change hidden parameters?</A></LI> </OL> @@ -30,15 +29,9 @@ <A HREF="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=13153">its SourceForge download page</A> and install Tidy.jar in your classpath. -<A NAME="meterware.com"><H2>Where is meterware.com?</H2></A> -When I started HttpUnit, I had a web site with the meterware.com domain, and relied on it to host some of the example code. -Since then, my ISP has dropped the hosting package I was using and I have not yet signed up with another host, mostly due to -lack of funds. I hope to correct this in the near future. - <A NAME="javascript"><H2>How do I use HttpUnit to test my pages that use JavaScript?</H2></A> -Unfortunately, you can't. HttpUnit does not support any dialect of JavaScript. I have been shown a JavaScript library and it is possible -that I will one day add JavaScript support, but since I use it very little in my own development, and since it looks like a lot of work, -it is not a major priority for me. If you feel ambitious enough to add JavaScript support yourself, I would be happy to accept submissions. +Unfortunately, you can't - yet. I have started to add JavaScript support, but it is very basic as yet. +If you would like to help out, please examine the code in cvs. <A NAME="proxy"><H2>Can I use HttpUnit through a proxy server?</H2></A> Yes. HttpUnit uses java.net.HttpURLConnection, so the @@ -65,14 +58,6 @@ </code></blockquote> where the proper encoding should be substituted for "EUC_JP". The <code>getBytes</code> call is needed to extract the raw bytes from the parameter string. -<A NAME="utf8"><H2>HttpUnit fails with an IllegalArgumentException: -sun.io.CharToByteUTF-8, what do I do?</H2></A> -JTidy requires bytes, not characters, and HttpUnit 1.2.1 sends it bytes in UTF-8 -encoding, which it obtains from the input page -using <code>getBytes( "UTF-8" )</code>. Unfortunately, Sun used the wrong -encoding name in its JDK 1.1.x implementations, so this code -fails under JDK 1.1. This has been corrected in HttpUnit 1.2.2. - <A NAME="buttons"><H2>HttpUnit is not finding the buttons and parameters in my forms. What is wrong?</H2></A> This often happens when your HTML is not valid. Most browsers are extremely forgiving of bad HTML; however, JTidy (the HTML parser used by HttpUnit) is not. It expects tags to be nested according to the HTML specification and @@ -94,10 +79,23 @@ tests to reload safely.</ul></p> <p>This problem appears to be resolved in JTidy r7, which is included with HttpUnit 1.4.1 or later. -<A HREF="#badPost"><H2>Why doesn't my servlet see parameters on a POST request?</H2></A> +<A NAME="#badPost"><H2>Why doesn't my servlet see parameters on a POST request?</H2></A> Some older servlet engines, such as Tomcat 3.1, get confused when they see a charset attribute on the Content-Type header. HttpUnit 1.2.6 sends this attribute; As of HttpUnit 1.2.7 it will only send it if you call <code>HttpUnitOptions.setPostIncludesCharset(true)</code> before your request. + +<A name="#hidden"><h2>Why can't I change hidden parameter values?</h2></A> +By default, HttpUnit verifies any parameter value changes against the form containing them. Since a user cannot directly +change hidden parameters, HttpUnit stops you from doing it in your code. If you have to change these values, you have a couple +of choices:<ul> +<li>If you call <code>HttpUnitOptions.setParameterValuesValidated( false )</code> before calling getRequest on your form, +the request will be created with validation disabled and you will be able to set any values you like. Note that in such a case +the order of parameters in the request is not guaranteed, in case your server cares about such things (servlets do not). +<li>You can call <code><form>.getScriptableObject().setParameterValue( <name>, <valuem> );</code> to change +the underlying value in the form. This will behave the way JavaScript does - resetting the form will now restore this value, +rather than the original one. +</ul> + </BODY></HTML> Index: release_notes.txt =================================================================== RCS file: /cvsroot/httpunit/httpunit/doc/release_notes.txt,v retrieving revision 1.120 retrieving revision 1.121 diff -u -r1.120 -r1.121 --- release_notes.txt 24 Jul 2002 20:54:31 -0000 1.120 +++ release_notes.txt 25 Jul 2002 11:19:18 -0000 1.121 @@ -12,6 +12,13 @@ Revision History: +Acknowledgements: + Thanks to Rajan Narasimhan for fixing the relative URL computation problem. + +25-Jul-2002 +Problems fixed: + 1. Relative URLs were not being computed properly when the base URL had a query string containing a slash. + 24-Jul-2002 Additions: 1. PseudoServer and associated classes are now publically available and in their own package, pseudoserver. |