Test Plan

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Testing your Subscriber

Discovery

• GET or HEAD, finding the Link header with rel=hub and rel=self
• GET and look in XML contents
• GET and look in HTML contents
• Must prioritize Link header over HTML link tag

Subscription

• Request a subscription to a hub that sends a 307/308 redirect to another hub
• Subscribe to a URL that returns a 301 redirect to another URL (see #98)
• Subscribe to a URL that reports a different rel=self from the input URL

Tracking Features

• Request a subscription with callback, mode, topic parameters
• Request a subscription with a secret
• Request a subscription with lease_seconds
• Unsubscribe

Subscription Verification

• Reject a verification request with an invalid topic URL

Tracking Features

• Acknowledge a valid pending subscription

Distribution

• Accept a valid signature for authenticated distribution
• Reject an invalid signature
• Reject delivery with no signature if subscription was made with a secret

Tracking Features

• Return 2xx when the notification payload is delivered

Testing your Publisher

The spec only describes how the publisher advertise the hub and topic URLs.

• Publisher advertises the URLs in HTTP headers
• Publisher advertises the URLs in HTML tags
• Publisher advertises the URLs in XML tags
• Publisher advertises the hub URL in the .host-meta file

These tests are not for compliance, but help publishers test whether their feeds are working properly.

• A notification is received when the publisher has updated the content

Testing your Hub

Subscription

• Allows subscription requests with callback, mode and topic parameters
• Allows subscriptions with a secret
• Must ignore additional parameters
• Must allow subscribers to re-request active subscriptions
• Supports unsubscribing

Tracking Features

• Allows subscribers to request a lease duration
• Ignores a lease duration request

Distribution

• Sends a notification with matching content type
• Sends only a diff in the notification
• Sends a notification with a valid signature

[aaronpk]

Double check this list matches the exit criteria w3c/websub#56