wininet: ftp test hangs behind firewall, so turn it off by default

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Tue Oct 23 15:09:45 CDT 2007


On 10/23/07, Alexandre Julliard <julliard at winehq.org> wrote:
> I don't think it really hangs, it just takes a long time to complete.

That could be.  Waiting for it to finish is like waiting for paint to dry,
though.  It took six minutes just now, and I'm on a fast connection.
If we're going to keep it, can we shorten it so it passes in one minute or less?

> > It would be better to embed a little ftp server into the test,
> > and connect to that instead of a public one, but that would
> > be a pain.
>
> No, we clearly want to run the test against a real ftp server. Running
> it against different types of servers would be even better. What we
> should probably do is try to connect to a server on localhost first,
> this way people can install the server of their choice to provide more
> test coverage.

That would be an improvement.
- Dan



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