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Bug 314148

Summary: Test Connection button on Help -> Content preference page should test for valid infocenter URL
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jim Perry <perryja>
Component: User AssistanceAssignee: platform-ua-inbox <platform-ua-inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: ChrisAustin
Version: 4.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Jim Perry CLA 2010-05-24 13:38:02 EDT 
Build Identifier: I20100521-1453

The Test Connection button at Window -> Preference -> Help -> Content, tests that the URL provided for an information center can be connected to (as it should).  Although a URL provided can be connected to, it may not be a valid information center.  This means that a URL which returns an error page, or any URL that can be connected to will return successful, even though help topics would never exist there.  It may be helpful to test not only for a connection, but also that the URL is a valid information center.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Widown -> Preferences -> Help -> Content
2. Add an infocenter to any URL that can be connected to (infocenter or not)
3. Test Connection
Comment 1 Chris Austin CLA 2010-12-10 12:24:28 EST 
Closing as Duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 320667 ***