[Webtest] UnknownHostException problem after WebTest install

[Marc Guillemot]

Hi,

I've faced the same problem, and I think this comes from a bug in the last 
version of httpunit when getting a file from the file system. Indeed with 
version 1.5.4, the following code produce the same error as the one you mention:

WebConversation webConv = new WebConversation();
webConv.getResponse("file:///home/marc/EWorkspace/CanooWebtests/doc/samples/testfile.html"); 


but with httpunit 1.5.3 or 1.4.5 it works properly.

If this is really an httpunit bug and as webtest now relies on httpunit 1.5.4, I 
guess we have to hack httpunit to fix it as long as it's not solved in a new 
httpunit release.

Marc.


Peter Cruickshank wrote:
> Hi guys
> 
> I've installed Webtest on my Mandrake 9.1 system, and have just hit the same 
> problem reported by Wei Chena few days ago - output at the end of this 
> message
> 
> Here's some more information and thoughts, which might be helpful...
> 
> I have installed webtest into /usr/local/webtest
> 
> PATH=/usr//bin:/bin:/usr/bin::/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/home/
> mytest/bin:/usr/local/apache-ant-1.5.4/bin 
> JAVA_HOME=/usr/java/j2sdk1.4.2_01
> ANT_HOME=/usr/local/apache-ant-1.5.4
> (Note - CLASSPATH is not set... could this be the problem?)
> 
> I am running Apache 2 (and the httpd daemon is running) - web root is
> /var/www/html - ie webtest is outside the webroot...
> 
> I have been successfully run the Java demo scripts, so Java seems to be OK, 
> it's been a while since I played with java, so I may have missed some vital 
> step.
> 
> Are any changed needed to the Apache conf? - for instance, does Ant require 
> jakarta to be installed? I've not used Ant before, so I'm not sure how to 
> make sure that it's working...
> 
> Loads of questions I know - but I'm keen to get the hang of webtest so that I 
> can be sure that the web code I'm writing actually works!
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help or ideas
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Peter
> 
> ----------  
> 
> [peter@main samples]$  ant -buildfile installTest.xml
> Buildfile: installTest.xml
> 
> checkANT:
> 
> mayPrintANTError:
> 
> checkWebTest:
> 
> BUILD FAILED
> file:/usr/local/webtest/doc/samples/installTest.xml:9: Test failed.
> Exception raised: com.canoo.webtest.engine.StepExecutionException:
> Unexpected exception caught: java.net.UnknownHostException:
> usrcom.canoo.webtest.engine.StepExecutionException: Unexpected exception
> caught: java.net.UnknownHostException: usr
>          at
> com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.handleUnexpectedException(Step.java:307)
>          at
> com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.Target.protectedGoto(Target.java:182)
>          at
> com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.Target.gotoTarget(Target.java:228)
>          at
> com.canoo.webtest.steps.request.InvokePage.doExecute(InvokePage.java:41)
>          at com.canoo.webtest.steps.Step.execute(Step.java:69)
>          at com.canoo.webtest.engine.Engine.executeSteps(Engine.java:32)
>          at
> com.canoo.webtest.ant.TestSpecificationTask.execute(TestSpecificationTask.jav
> a:72) at
> org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:193)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:341)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:309)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:336)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1339)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1255)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:609)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.start(Main.java:196)
>          at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.main(Main.java:235)
> 
> 
> Total time: 8 seconds
> 
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