Re^9: Testing with Test::Mock::HTTP::Tiny

I've changed the domain to one that doesn't exist on t'interweb so I can be sure the test code is using the mocked data and not going off and fetching a fresh page.

Sooner or later, a troll will register the domain. Better either use a domain that you control, or use one of the domains reserved for purposes like this (see RFC2606):

Reserved Top-Level Domains (Quoting RFC2606):

".test" is recommended for use in testing of current or new DNS related code.
".example" is recommended for use in documentation or as examples.
".invalid" is intended for use in online construction of domain names that are sure to be invalid and which it is obvious at a glance are invalid.
The ".localhost" TLD has traditionally been statically defined in host DNS implementations as having an A record pointing to the loop back IP address and is reserved for such use. Any other use would conflict with widely deployed code which assumes this use.

Reserved Second-Level Domains (again quoting RFC2606):

example.com
example.net
example.org

RFC6761 updates RFC2606 with best practices.

If you fake a domain data, you should probably use the .test or .invalid TLDs. If you have no better idea, use something like bod-example-1.test, bod-example-2.test, and so on. Probably, you may want to name your domains to match your tests, e.g. working-host.invalid, wrong-cert.invalid, and so on.

Alexander

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Re^10: Testing with Test::Mock::HTTP::Tiny by Bod (Parson) on Sep 30, 2023 at 00:05 UTC
Sooner or later, a troll will register the domain Ah yes...I'd overlooked that strange TLDs like `crawl` can now be registered... Fortunately I read this (and acted on it) lust before updating the code on GitHub and uploading WWW::Crawl to CPAN	[reply] [d/l]