Re: Failing tests on MSVC in libs-base

[Gregory Casamento]

I thought the 404 was the error we were trying to correct which is why I placed the file there.  

Gregory Casamento
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On Tue, Apr 9, 2024 at 18:23 Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola@libero.it> wrote:

Hi,

Ivan Vučica wrote:
> I saw this: this was recently addressed by replacing probe of
> example.org/silly-url-test because example.org started returning 503
> or similar for that URL instead of 404.
>
> Incoming PR addressed this on every other platform by replacing
> example.org with another piece of infrastructure we don’t fully
> control, gnustep.github.io, so I merged it. (As I mentioned on that
> PR, worse solution would be if it depended on our infrastructure: DNS,
> Nginx, … on gnustep.org. Then any flake on home.gnustep.org or with
> Gandi for DNS would also start people’s tests failing.)
>

I don't think this was the correct solution. Gregory added a file to the
websites, but that's not the intent of a 404!
Also, I think it is case-sensitive.

I don't think the PR was a good one? RIght now we fail on windows (just
checked) and FreeBSD, Linux... so it is a consistent "broken" behaviour,
not just windows.

Riccardo