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SF patch 809915: Fix bogus address to hopefully always break.

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test_bad_address():  Recover from that VeriSign thought it would boost
its corporate coffers to start resolving http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/.

Bugfix candidate -- although the bug is more VeriSign's than Python's!
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Tim Peters 2003-09-20 22:16:26 +00:00
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Lib/test/test_urllibnet.py
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@ -103,7 +103,14 @@ def test_bad_address(self):
# Make sure proper exception is raised when connecting to a bogus
# address.
self.assertRaises(IOError,
urllib.urlopen, "http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/")
# SF patch 809915: In Sep 2003, VeriSign started
# highjacking invalid .com and .net addresses to
# boost traffic to their own site. This test
# started failing then. One hopes the .invalid
# domain will be spared to serve its defined
# purpose.
# urllib.urlopen, "http://www.sadflkjsasadf.com/")
urllib.urlopen, "http://www.python.invalid/")
class urlretrieveNetworkTests(unittest.TestCase):
"""Tests urllib.urlretrieve using the network."""