On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:15:14PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 04:03:43PM +0100, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 03:29:48PM +0100, Martin J. Evans wrote: > > > 5. Loads of modules seem to use LWP but not support $ua->env_proxy so > > > never spot I'm behind a firewall and hence have http_proxy env var set. > > > Obviously these all fail in some way. > > This kind of thing is problematic. There is just no way to second guess > > this. > > I was testing in these circumstances up until recently myself. CPAN authors > > do make the assumption that they have full Internet access, unfortunately. > > I'm inclined to treat that as a bug and quite happy to send a FAIL > report.
Oh sure. Personally I never assume that a CPAN Tester has Internet access when I write tests for my modules. If I am testing networking behaviour I make do with the loopback interface. If I do have to connect to the Internet, I check whether I can do this first and skip if I can't. There is a test in the POE::Component::IRC that does that. Cheers, -- Chris Williams aka BinGOs PGP ID 0x4658671F http://www.gumbynet.org.uk ==========================
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