Client testing (was Re: Text reflow woes (or: I want bullets back!))

It was thus said that the Great solderpunk once stated:
> 
> I've started a test client which you provide a hostname and it throws
> various requests at that host and checks the response status against its
> expectations.  It's not quite ready for prime time yet, though.

  How's the test client coming along?

> Although, it's already made me realise something that we haven't specced
> any behaviour for at all: how should a server respond to an empty
> request?  i.e. just CRLF.  Is this invalid, such that it should trigger
> a 59 response?  Some servers do this, but others seem to treat it as a
> request for the root document.

  Oh, another question I have.  Because my server treats that as an error,
and I think it should be an error---why not all servers currently support
multiple sites, it is possible, and without a URL to give the server name,
there's no way a multi-site server will know what to serve up.

  -spc

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