Re: deleting w3c-test.org/{webapps,webevents,web-platform-tests} creates lots of 404s

On 21/03/14 10:44, Odin Hørthe Omdal wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 20, 2014, at 18:14, James Graham wrote:
>> wptserve doesn't really support the kind of wildcard redirect you are
>> looking for. Since it's not a feature required to test the web platform
>> I am reluctant to add it unless we are really sure it's worth the cost.
>
> Can wpt be proxied through nginx which has the features?
>
> Though proxying through will of course make certain tests fail. So it's
> a bad idea anyway. That's what we wanted to go away from.
>
> Is there another (cleaner) way to have wptserve defer to some other
> authorithy on cases it doesn't know how to handle? (a fall-through?).
>

I think proxying is a very bad idea. I can't see any kind of 
fall-through that wouldn't be equivalent to just adding support for 
rewriting URLs just for this case, which is what I want to avoid.

Received on Friday, 21 March 2014 10:50:46 UTC