----- Original Message ----- From: "Conor MacNeill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 19, 2001 4:31 AM Subject: Re: Automated execution of run-tests via gump
> From: "Sam Ruby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Wouldn't chaing the url to "file:///README" achieve the desired result? > > > > Well, the test might pass but I am not sure how useful the test would then > be. > point it at napster.com and make an ideological statement? ...when I was testing the timestamp feature of GET (which I think does need to go against an http URL) I ended up sticking some files with various timestamps up beyond the firewall, only to find that it helped to demonstrate proxy configuration issues in the JRE more than it showed the code working. If ant were to support conditional code, I'd be tempted to code up a 'reachable' task which sets a property if a destination URL is accessible (do a HEAD call against it), This would let you change the target set depending on whether or not remote destinations were available. Good idea or dangerous continuance of a troublesome precedent? -steve
