[drupal-devel] [bug] system/test causes various problems on various hosts

[chx]

Issue status update for http://drupal.org/node/19515

 Project:      Drupal
 Version:      cvs
 Component:    system.module
 Category:     bug reports
 Priority:     critical
 Assigned to:  chx
 Reported by:  chx
 Updated by:   chx
 Status:       patch
 Attachment:   http://drupal.org/files/issues/system_test_patch (2.68 KB)

4.6 is only RC yet but I already got support requests on #drupal-support
and at various Hungarian places about "admin/settings not displayed".
Apparently, opening sockets is not a clean business. It has various
problems in BSD jails, Windows boxes and who knows where else.
I pray on my knees -- do not release 4.6 with the current test in
admin/settings. It will be a support nightmare.
My patch tries to load a random named gif which is of course a Drupal
page which sets clean_url_ok to 1 and prints the 42 bytes required for
a 1x1 GIF. Because it is random named, it is impossible that the
information "no such information" gets cached in a stupid proxy or
browser.
When AJAX hits the core, we will be able to check whether the request
is OK or not. For now, we can only check after submit.


chx