Re: [PATCH] http: fix v1 protocol tests with apache httpd < 2.4

> On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 07:39:46PM -0500, Todd Zullinger wrote:
>> I don't know if there's a clean way to do that
>> automatically, short of parsing the output of 'httpd -v'
>> should we ever need to add such a prereq.
> 
> In the general case, we could probably define an endpoint within an <If>
> block, and then try to access the endpoint from the test script.
> 
> E.g., something like:
> 
>     <IfVersion >= 2.4>
>     Alias /have-2.4.txt www/yes.txt
>     </IfVersion>
> 
> in the apache config, and then:
> 
>   test_lazy_prereq APACHE24 '
>         echo yes >"$HTTPD_DOCUMENT_ROOT_PATH/yes.txt" &&
>         curl -f "$HTTPD_URL/have-2.4.txt"
>   '
> 
> in the test script (of course we may not want to depend on having
> command-line curl, but we could replace that with "git ls-remote" or
> similar).
> 
> One nice thing about that approach is that it can be extended to other
> "If" blocks, like if we have a particular module available, or if ssl is
> configured.