Testing, Benchmarking, and Certification.
I'm hoping to renew the effort to collect test data, toward the goal of
creating validation suites and the like.
If you have data to share, please post a note to www-talk.
W3C Resources
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HTML 2.0 document and user agent testing
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HTML document validation services, plus browser testing and collaborative
development of HTML test suites.
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libwww testing
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Alex Lian is working on a deja-gnu based framework for testing the WWW
common code library. He's done quite a bit with URL parsing testing.
Related Resources
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XMosaic
multimedia demo
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-- FTP sound and graphics.
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SPEC
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A testing organization, interested in web server performance testing. Contact:
Prasad.Wagle@eng.sun.com (Prasad Wagle) regarding SPEC bechmarks
for HTTP.
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Webstone
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performance project at SGI
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Web Servers Comparison
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Version 3.0, September 1995 by Paul E. Hoffman
Full HTTP protocol
Access
control test data
The CERN
"info" server and all servers running httpd 2.0 or after can handle
HTTP1.0 to some degree. Here are some things for testing clients with full
HTTP:
A browsable
directory The server guideThe server guide in postscript
The server guide in plain
text
A multiformat
document -- should deliver as postscript if you can handle it, otherwise
plain text.
Graphics
Newspaper
cutting scanned at various resolutions and held in various representations.
ExecutablesAn executable file. Set your browser to run documents of type
application/x-csh locally and run this
. A suitable rule file for your client is here
. Binary filesCheck out pub/www/src
for some compressed tar files. Searching databases
HEPdata is a database which should work. a search
. NNTP protocolA newsgroup
-- also, follow a link from it to any article. BAD URLSTry these out --
marc referred to them as crashing a pre-2.0 Mosaic. to it's worth testing
your browser on them: ://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/
junk://cbl.leeds.ac.uk/
FTP protocol
An
FTP site
A
postscript file by FTP
An Adobe
illustrator file (.ai, treat as postscript)
Tom's GIFs
of Cello
Direct WAIS access
This is only available with WWW library 2.05 and above compiled with the
WAIS option, or with any library running with environment variable WWW_wais_GATEWAY
set to wais://
CNIDR directory of servers
ftp.eunet.ch
FAQ index
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Daniel W.
Connolly
Tim BL