Should probably setup a test HTTPD-ish process for the test to work from. Is there a lightweight component we could start up by the test so that we have more control over how this works?
--jason
First post - though I've followed this strangely heated debate from the start. Apologies if I miss the mark...
It looks to me that in including a remote http download in the unit test, we're effectively just testing the HttpURLConnection class (which we can probably assume is working).
Does the test really lose anything by not connecting to a real or mock http server?
A better way to test might be to add our own URL protocol "geronimo-test://", for example. I guess ideally we'd like to pass in a mockURL class, but java.net.URL is designated final.
Ben
