Re: Failing tests on MSVC in libs-base

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

Ivan Vučica wrote:
> I saw this: this was recently addressed by replacing probe of 
> example.org/silly-url-test because example.org started returning 503 
> or similar for that URL instead of 404.

We rely on github there... wonder what happened.
But also creating the file doesn't seem to be a good idea if 404 is 
looked after?

> Tests should not be trying to access network as part of CI. The right 
> fix would be to spin up a temporary server on localhost etc. That 
> itself requires carefully doing process management on all supported 
> platforms.

Richard should chime in here... but before Easter I had all tests 
running on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD...
I think there is minimal HTTP test server.
> Why does it fail for windows+clang? No clue. Maybe CI for windows 
> actually blocks outgoing requests completely? This would be the cause 
> only if we have more tests dependent on the network and they’re also 
> failing. Maybe the CORRECT fix is not to do the test at all, at least 
> in Ci?

It could be somehow put as skipped or dashed hope under certain 
conditions? like a CI flag?

Riccardo