Hi Tim, This is great, the whole proxy thing has been an issue for me as well - I took a stab at doing something like this last year but couldn't get it working.
I have access to a trend and scansafe proxy so can physically test against those if you want. Kind regards, Sean On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 2:37:03 PM UTC+1, Jay McCarthy wrote: > Here are some testing options: > 1) Implement a proxy server in Racket > > 2) Fake a proxy server that just repeats what you know to be a good > session (by dumping an interaction with a real server) > > 3) Require squid or something to be present when testing > > 4) Find a public proxy server that can be used to test > > -- > > I recommend 2. > > Jay > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Tim Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks, > > > > Fed up with not being able to install racket (or generally use raco) from > > behind > > a firewall, I have a PR https://github.com/racket/racket/pull/1411 open > > which allows > > me to use HTTPS over an HTTP CONNECT (e.g. squid) proxy. > > > > I need to document and test my changes. > > > > Documentation is a straightforward enough exercise. > > > > However, I’m a bit stuck with testing. I have a new clone of > > tim-brown/racket > > and a `make` is building, DOWNLOADING and INSTALLING the packages. The > > capitals > > are because I am so excited! So, as far as I can tell: it “works for me”. > > > > I guess that isn’t what most engineers would call a test-suite, however. > > Since the code deals with proxy servers -- which are an > > installation-specific > > thing. I can write tests like the ones in pkgs/net-test/tests/net/url.rkt > > -- which > > test parsing proxy server names. But there is nothing to make sure that > > proxying > > connections works. > > > > I was wondering if anyone has suggestions for writing tests for this. > > > > Tim > > > > PS: The make is no longer building. > > It is fully builded! > > > > -- > > Tim Brown CEng MBCS <[email protected]> > > ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ > > City Computing Limited · www.cityc.co.uk > > City House · Sutton Park Rd · Sutton · Surrey · SM1 2AE · GB > > T:+44 20 8770 2110 · F:+44 20 8770 2130 > > ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────── > > City Computing Limited registered in London No:1767817. > > Registered Office: City House, Sutton Park Road, Sutton, Surrey, SM1 2AE > > VAT No: GB 918 4680 96 > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Racket Users" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Jay McCarthy > Associate Professor > PLT @ CS @ UMass Lowell > http://jeapostrophe.github.io > > "Wherefore, be not weary in well-doing, > for ye are laying the foundation of a great work. > And out of small things proceedeth that which is great." > - D&C 64:33 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
