shazow/urllib3 — comment on commit 99cd0a3c68de889af1cbcf82580d24057ab8a29d
File: test/with_dummyserver/test_socket_closing.py line 50
By brandon-rhodes:

Heh — whereas my approach is exactly the opposite. :) I would *only* write low-level tests for `urllib3` because I am not interested in whether any particular web server, whether Apache or nginx or wsgiref or eventlet, can correctly read HTTP. I just want to see the HTTP text that `urllib3` produces; see it react properly to HTTP text that comes back; and, when modifying the library and running the tests, I want to know immediately if I have done something that makes even the slightest unintentional change to the requests that are being issued, whether some particular web server would care about them or not.