These tests are intended to make sure that the apache module & config intended to implement the new dns system on the student web service works as expected.
A number of URLs of the following forms will be loaded on a machine with a hosts file modified so that students.washington.edu and uwnetid.students.washington.edu for each uwnetid that will be tested point to the IP of a test machine.
These are all expected to load the web page of the user 'uwnetid' at uwnetid.students.washington.edu.
Other things to test include whether links generated by Catalyst SimpleSite work properly, though there's no reason that this should not be covered in the above tests. I also plan to test whether pubcookie-protected sites function properly in all the cases mentioned above.
The next bit of functionality we want to test is the testing URL.
The following URLs will be loaded on the same machine and expected to forward us to another machine which will presumably be the new student web servers (stewart).
It's not clear to me which of these are supposed to work. I'll probably just try them until one of these does work. If I can't find one that works, I'll ask which one is supposed to work.
Make sure to test how the certificate changes will look to users. Pay attention to both the temporary hack version of things and the eventual pubcookie fixed version of things.