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Id: 29341
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Test-WWW-Mechanize

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Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: PURDY [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Critical
Broken in: (no value)
Fixed in: 1.14



Subject: get_ok.t test fails
Having problems installing Test::WWW::Mechanize b/c of a failing test: # perl -T -Iblib/lib t/get_ok.t 1..11 ok 1 - use Test::WWW::Mechanize; ok 2 - HTTP Server started HTTP::Server::Simple: You can connect to your server at http://localhost:13432/ ok 3 - The object isa Test::WWW::Mechanize ok 4 - sanity check: we can load goodlinks.html ok 5 - Gets existing URI and reports success ok 6 - get_ok() should only return a scalar ok 7 - And the result should be true not ok 8 - sanity check: we can't load NONEXISTENT.html # Failed test 'sanity check: we can't load NONEXISTENT.html' # in t/get_ok.t at line 43. not ok 9 - Fails to get nonexistent URI and reports failure # Failed test 'Fails to get nonexistent URI and reports failure' # in t/get_ok.t at line 50. # STDOUT is: # ok 1 - Try to get bad URL # # not: # not ok 1 - Try to get bad URL # # as expected # STDERR is: # # not: # (?-xism:#\s+Failed\ test.*?\n?.*?t\/get_ok\.t at line 49.*\n?) # # 500 # # # Can't connect to wango.nonexistent.xx-only-testing:80 (Bad hostname 'wango.nonexistent.xx-only-testing') # # as expected ok 10 - get_ok() should only return a scalar not ok 11 - And the result should be false # Failed test 'And the result should be false' # in t/get_ok.t at line 53.
Your DNS apparently answers every request, even if the domain doesn't exist. We now skip setups like this.