291855 - SSL tests should not use hardcoded port

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(NSS :: Test, defect)

Description

[Julien Pierre]

Currently, the NSS QA uses the hardcoded port 8443 .

This prevents multiple tinderboxes or QA runs from running simultaneously on the
same machine. Collisions are a nightly occurrence for the QA at Sun.

The QA should be able to use a port dynamically chosen based on something unique
to the test environment, such as the PID of the shell process that starts the test.

Comment 1

[Wan-Teh Chang]

8443 is the *default* value of the PORT variable.
In ssl.sh, we have:

PORT=${PORT-8443}

You can specify an alternative port by setting the
PORT environment variable to that port number.

Is this good enough?

Comment 2

[Wan-Teh Chang]

I should add that we were using the PORT environment
variable in our Tinderbox scripts.  Our QA script
mozilla/security/nss/tests/header has a -p option
that sets the PORT environment variable.

Comment 3

[Julien Pierre]

Yes, this is good enough. Marking WORKSFORME.