[webkit-dev] mod_pywebsocket for testing Web Socket implementation

[Maciej Stachowiak]

On Sep 7, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Yuzo Fujishima wrote:

>
>> Building and installing some Apache modules doesn't seem like that  
>> big a
>> deal to me, if it would really make testing more practical.
>
>> However, it seems like using a premade websocket server  
>> implementation
>> would
>> make some forms of testing harder. In particular, it would be more
>> difficult
>> to test what happens in the face of malformed results from the  
>> server,
>> which
>> is a very important part of testing.
>
>> So based on that, it probably makes more sense to do at least some  
>> of the
>> testing and a lower level, so we can easily test invalid server  
>> responses.
>
> Using mod_pywebsocket, we can write a server-side Web Socket handler
> for a URL and put it in a corresponding directory under  
> LayoutTests/...
>
> A handler is a Python script and can send (or not send) arbitrary  
> bytes,
> malformed or not, to the browser.

Sounds like that part will be easy to test, then, though I'm surprised  
that mod_pywebsocket doesn't implement the WebSocket protocol framing.

> A handler is called after Web Socket handshake. There is no way to  
> send
> malformed messages during handshake, as far as mod_pywebsocket is
> functioning properly. We may need a different mechanism here.
>
> How do you test a case where the Web server returns broken HTTP  
> headers,
> for example? Perhaps we can do similar for Web Sockets?

One way is to control the status line and headers is using .asis files.

Regards,
Maciej