more robust HTTP testing

connections are now retried after timeout and failing connections will
be marked as skipped instead of failing. This should reduce false alarms
on travis

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/_test/tests/inc/mailer.test.php b/_test/tests/inc/mailer.test.php
index 4541d9906..50d282864 100644
--- a/_test/tests/inc/mailer.test.php
+++ b/_test/tests/inc/mailer.test.php
@@ -191,7 +191,10 @@ class mailer_test extends DokuWikiTest {
         // ask message lint if it is okay
         $html = new HTTPClient();
         $results = $html->post('http://tools.ietf.org/tools/msglint/msglint', array('msg'=>$msg));
-        $this->assertTrue($results !== false);
+        if($results === false) {
+            $this->markTestSkipped('no response from validator');
+            return;
+        }
 
         // parse the result lines
         $lines = explode("\n", $results);