I am inclined towards just skipping the tests if curl doesn't have
--http1.1 option. That would be the quickest workaround.
People who really want to run all the skipped tests can download it then.

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:49 AM Walt Karas <wka...@oath.com.invalid> wrote:

> tcp_client.py doesn't support TLS.  But, other than that major
> deficiency, it's better for automated testing than curl.  curl is
> designed to work around problems in tricky ways in order to succeed in
> copying the resource.  It can sometimes mask problems that one is
> hoping to find with automated regression testing.
>
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 11:15 PM Leif Hedstrom <zw...@apache.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 8, 2019, at 5:34 PM, Pushkar Pradhan <pprad...@oath.com.INVALID>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > Miles is right. Here's my output:
> > > [iwonttellyoumyusername@iwonttellyoumyhostname ~]$ cat
> /etc/redhat-release
> > > Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5 (Maipo)
> > > [iwonttellyoumyusername@iwonttellyoumyhostname ~]$ curl --version
> > > curl 7.29.0 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.29.0 NSS/3.28.4
> zlib/1.2.7
> > > libidn/1.28 libssh2/1.4.3
> >
> >
> > Ah, that makes a lot more sense :).
> >
> > I honestly think it’s fine to require a more recent version of curl (or,
> use some curl like interface in Python?). Retaining compatibility with all
> the versions of Linux that we support is important for ATS, but I don’t
> think that applies to running autest.  As long as it’s well document what
> tool chain is required for autest, we should be fine IMO.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > — Leif
> >
>


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pushkar

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