akara/faban — Issue #26: Need support for http request that retrieves binary data
Author: shanti
Created: 2012-01-26 19:27:08+00:00
State: open

There are a multitude of fetchURL() methods supported in both the Apache hc3 and Sun http transport classes (com.sun.faban.driver.transport.hc3.ApacheHc3Transport and com.sun.faban.driver.transport.sunhttp.SunHttpTransport). But they all expect to receive valid text of a very modest size as a response.
If one is testing a request to download a file, the return type can be of arbitrary type and/or a much larger size.