Re: [Simpletest-support] Should there be an interim Beta5?

[Jason S. <jsw...@ya...>]

--- Marcus Baker <ma...@la...> wrote:
> I have amged to get a lot of HTTP fixes into the current development 
> cycle as well as browser hiostory buttons (retry, back, forward). I am 
> also adding basic authentication support. I feel this is enough for an 
> interim Beta5 release so that people can test these features sooner 
> rather than later. Otherwise there will probably be a lot of fixes in 
> the 1.0 release candidate.
> 
> What do people think? Are any of these items compelling enough to 
> warrant another release? Although unplanned it shouldn't affect current 
> development, which is still looking at mid-April for a release.

Sounds reasonable to me.  I did not get a chance to reply to your "todo"
requests earlier.  Mine would lean towards supporting https (perhaps via the
curl extension?)

In addition to my web site monitoring idea, I have had another crazy idea that
the web tester might fit into: a relatively simple scripting mechanism for an
"personal web agent".  i.e. there are certain web based tasks that it might be
nice to have done via a cron job.  My local library has a web page to check the
status of items checked out and allows you to renew the items once.  If it were
relatively easy to:
a) configure a script to login as me
b) check the status daily
c) if the due date is tomorrow, attempt to renew
d) check the renewal, and on failure email me
this would be what I am thinking of as a "personal web agent".  Seems like many
of the pieces are in the web tester.

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