Re: link test suite

Ville,

On Feb 1, 2008, at 08:51 , Ville Skyttä wrote:
> In principle, I'm inclined to disagree that 404 would be the  
> expected status
> code for DNS failures.  If a host cannot be resolved, no HTTP  
> transaction can
> actually occur, so there actually can't be any real response code  
> either,
> right?  I'm not sure what that'd mean from the test suite POV yet nor
> whether -2 makes any sense at all, but I thought I'd mention it.

You're absolutely right. I'll be using the specific statuses for DNS  
errors, timeout and robot exclusion which checklink is using. Any  
other non-HTTP code you recall we're using?

-- 
olivier

Received on Friday, 1 February 2008 02:57:29 UTC