testserver.py and persistent connections?

[Demetrios Tsillas]

I'm using the spawned test server to design some browser_tests which load resources and collect some data..

One test invokes a second http testserver and loads singleton objects from this server.

I noticed that when my test page loads singleton objects it does not reuse the connection, which would normally be the case for a modern server.

Is there a way to get persistent connection from testserver?

thanks!!!
-Jim.

[Matthew Menke]

No, there's not.  testserver.py is rather dysfunctional, and not really supported or maintained.  EmbeddedTestServer is the new way to do things (Though it also doesn't support multiple requests on a socket, it does, at least, support multiple requests at the same time on different sockets, which testserver.py does not).

[Demetrios Tsillas]

Documentation on BaseHTTPServer (which testserver is based on) claims that persistent connection are supported once HTTP/1.1 is specified. Although the content-length must now be supplied in every header. I understand that EmbeddedTestServer is the preferred option today.

thanks!!!