So at the moment the serve.py script tries to do some cleverness and fall back to w3c-test.org if the local subdomains don't resolve e.g. it will try to use www.w3c-test.org in place of www.web-platform.test if the latter doesn't resolve. Unfortunately this system is totally broken because the ports on the local machine and on w3c-test.org don't match at all. To deal with this, it would be necessary to assign each domain / subdomain a port either from loclhost or from the well-kown ports on the fallback server. This would impact the way that substitutions are used e.g. {{domains[www]}}:{{ports[http][0]}} wouldn't make any sense because the port would depend on the domain. Since tests are using various combinations of host/domain/port, fixing this would require a great deal of effort not just to design a fallback-aware substitution mechanism, but also to convert all tests to use it. I don't think I have time to do this work (that is; I think there are other things I could be doing that are higher value). Does anyone else think that the the fallback to w3c-test.org is valuable enough that they are prepared to put in the effort to unbreak it? If not I suggest we remove this feature and simply require people to set up their environment correctly.Received on Thursday, 24 April 2014 12:44:01 UTC
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