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This provides a reasonable way to simulate a flakey network, busted deploy, or ad blocker. It lets us actively block a network request that the page makes.

// to simulate JS that is enabled, but fails to load
block-network-request: "*.js"

This is the simplest case, but is not the only useful one. It can also block specific files, and it can stack:

block-network-request: "*/search-index.js"
block-network-request: "*/search.js"

Once a block list is added, there's no way to remove it. Flakey network tests will probably be in separate test files, so that shouldn't be a serious weakness.

CC rust-lang/rust#123407

This provides a reasonable way to simulate a flakey network,
busted deploy, or ad blocker. It lets us actively block a
network request that the page makes.

    // to simulate JS that is enabled, but fails to load
    block-network-request: "*.js"

This is the simplest case, but is not the only useful one.
It can also block specific files, and it can stack:

    block-network-request: "*/search-index.js"
    block-network-request: "*/search.js"

Once a block list is added, there's no way to remove it.
Flakey network tests will probably be in separate test files,
so that shouldn't be a serious weakness.
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// This test is meant to ensure that we can block an external script request.
// Since we are intentionally causing request errors, don't block them.
fail-on-request-error: false
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Could you mention this in the documentation as well please? Could be surprising that a test fails if you block a request in another command.

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Okay, I've addressed both nits.

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Awesome, thanks!

@GuillaumeGomez GuillaumeGomez merged commit 9fdd000 into GuillaumeGomez:master Apr 4, 2024
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I'll make a new release soon and update rust-lang/rust#123407.

@notriddle notriddle deleted the notriddle/block-network-request branch April 4, 2024 16:43
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