Message8217

When I run:
    start dist\bin\jython -m test.test_httpservers

test_request_line_trimming reports ERROR, and the test hangs at test_version_none.

I quickly found that CPython does the same thing (2.7 and 3.3) and believe I've tracked the cause down to the Windows platform software. Full story in issue http://bugs.python.org/issue20155, since I did this investigation using CPython.

Rather than just skip the tests, I'll look variants that achieve the same objectives but works on my machine too.

I'm not able to guess at the wider implications of this behaviour: maybe it's actually a bug in Windows; maybe it's acceptable. I think it only manifests in conditions where the client should get an error response, and the bug would be that it doesn't. either the connection is closed prematurely (test_request_line_trimming), or the request gets stuck in transit (test_version_none). That may violate the expectations of an application designer, as it does ours for these tests.