Bug#750276: libhttp-async-perl: FTBFS: Tests failures

[gregor herrmann]

On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 19:25:22 +0100, Daniel Lintott wrote:

> After a bit more digging and understanding how the various modules were
> working together I've discovered that:
> 
> 1) HTTP::Server::Simple appears to be working as expected and as per RFC
> whilst HTTP::Async was basically exploiting the fact that
> HTTP::Server::Simple didn't comform to RFC so was able to use it as a
> proxy which is now broken.
> 
> 2) HTTP::Server::Simple has no idea it's being used as a proxy
> 
> 3) The "proxy server" is implemented in
> libhttp-async-perl/t/TestServer.pm [1]

Ah, ok.
Seems my reassign was premature then?

Since you have much more clue than me after all this analysis, feel
free to clean it up again :)

> > Maybe you could try and ask upstream about it?
> I shall contact the Upstream Author of HTTP::Async first, as that
> project has seen the latest activity.
> HTTP::Server::Simple doesn't appear to have had any activity since May
> 2012 when 0.45_02 developer release was made.

Sounds good, thanks!


Cheers,
gregor


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