Note about terrible DNS providers for testing
authorKenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:24:41 +0000 (10:24 -0500)
committerKenneth Reitz <me@kennethreitz.com>
Wed, 9 Nov 2011 15:24:41 +0000 (10:24 -0500)
test_requests.py

index ebff33dd5563092bff01bab1938ad725273fedcb..d5c9eaa11f545a7d2a9f6623175cf36f0b96e6ad 100755 (executable)
@@ -531,7 +531,10 @@ class RequestsTestSuite(unittest.TestCase):
 
     def test_invalid_content(self):
 
-        r = requests.get('http://somedomainthatclearlydoesntexistg.com')
+        # WARNING: if you're using a terrible DNS provider (comcast),
+        # this will fail.
+        r = requests.get('http://somedomainthatclearlydoesntexistg.com', allow_redirects=False)
+
         assert r.content == None