patchwatcher: the winehttp:notification tests are failing for some reason

[Hans Leidekker]

On Tuesday 28 October 2008 09:10:33 Reece Dunn wrote:

> Does anyone have any ideas why these tests are failing (e.g.
> http://kegel.com/wine/patchwatcher/results/3644.log)? The patches in
> question don't touch that code at all.
> 
> Looking at http://test.winehq.org (e.g.
> http://test.winehq.org/data/07fafa26a318a3da3185fcac71bfa6d3fba82787/xp_fg-winxp-sp3/winhttp:notification.html)
> there seems to be some variance on WinXP and 2003.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is context dependant (e.g. network timing out)?

Windows caches connections up to a couple of seconds, that's why you don't
see notifications for hostname resolution or the connection being made.

I guess we could increase sleep between two tests that query the same host
once more, or just pick another host.

 -Hans