[webkit-dev] The http tests are very flaky

[Michael Nordman]

lighttpd+cgiphp is not super reliable... i think that accounts for
some amount of chromium's http test flakiness on windows.

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 10:07 AM, Julie Parent <jparent+webkit at gmail.com> wrote:
> For Chromium, the http tests aren't very flaky on Mac (I see only 5 flaky
> http tests).  Windows, however, is another story.
>
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Ojan Vafai <ojan at chromium.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:10 PM, Eric Seidel <eric at webkit.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Looking at the Chromium Flakiness dashboard (which has results going
>>> back for months!) we see that many of the same http tests are flaky
>>> for chromium too:
>>> http://test-results.appspot.com/dashboards/flakiness_dashboard.html
>>>
>>> I believe they use a different http server (lighttpd, but my
>>> information could be old?) and certainly a separate network stack.
>>
>> We use lighttpd only on Windows. It's been on our long-term TODO list to
>> use apache on Windows again, but getting it to work on Vista/Win7 has proven
>> tricky.
>> Ojan
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