From 4b355dd13b29eb8ef93d20c60b418004d8b8d6b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 23:30:09 +0100 Subject: TODO: Use "random" ports for the test servers --- docs/TODO | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index fbf2d2520..ddf3652b8 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ 20.6 Use the RFC6265 test suite 20.7 Support LD_PRELOAD on macOS 20.8 Run web-platform-tests url tests + 20.9 Use "random" ports for the test servers 21. Next SONAME bump 21.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP @@ -1096,6 +1097,17 @@ that doesn't exist on the server, just like --ftp-create-dirs. See https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/4477 +20.9 Use "random" ports for the test servers + + Instead of insisting and using fixed port numbers for the tests (even though + they can be changed with a switch), consider letting each server pick a + random available one at start-up, store that info in a file and let the test + suite use that. + + We could then remove the "check that it is our server that's running"-check + and we would immediately detect when we write tests wrongly to use hard-coded + port numbers. + 21. Next SONAME bump 21.1 http-style HEAD output for FTP -- cgit v1.2.1