Comment 3 for bug 392127

bzr selftest --starting-with bt.test_http
hangs on
[pva in /vt/portage/tmp/portage/dev-util/bzr-1.16.1/work/bzr-1.16.1]
 $=> bzr selftest --starting-with bt.test_http
testing: /usr/bin/bzr
   /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/bzrlib (1.16.1 python2.6.2)

XFAIL: test_http.TestInvalidStatusServer.test_http_get(pycurl,HTTP/1.1)
pycurl hangs if the server send back garbage

XFAIL: test_http.TestInvalidStatusServer.test_http_has(pycurl,HTTP/1.1)
pycurl hangs if the server send back garbage

ERROR: test_http.TestWallServer.test_http_get(pycurl,HTTP/1.1)
    (56, 'Failure when receiving data from the peer')

ERROR: test_http.TestWallServer.test_http_has(pycurl,HTTP/1.1)
    (56, 'Failure when receiving data from the peer')

XFAIL: test_http.TestProxyAuth.test_changing_nonce(pycurl,HTTP/1.0,digest)
pycurl does not handle a nonce change

XFAIL: test_http.TestProxyAuth.test_changing_nonce(pycurl,HTTP/1.1,digest)
pycurl does not handle a nonce change

XFAIL: test_http.TestAuth.test_changing_nonce(pycurl,HTTP/1.0,digest)
pycurl does not handle a nonce change

XFAIL: test_http.TestAuth.test_changing_nonce(pycurl,HTTP/1.1,digest)
pycurl does not handle a nonce change

[574/709 in 26s, 2 err] test_http.TestAuth.test_wrong_pass(pycurl,HTTP/1.1,basicdigest)

I've tried to strace on that process and it tries to read something:

camobap efence # strace -p 15809
Process 15809 attached - interrupt to quit
read(19,

This is also reproducible with the current bzr.dev branch.