Metadata parser testing. Proxies & password

[Tom Zeller]

>>Do we care enough about this to build the requisite infrastructure.  My
>>instinct is that I am more nervous about having real user names and
>>passwords for our web services checked in (even if the associated account
>>is
>>locked right down) than I am about regressions and that the effort to
>>build
>>a complete test harness just to test these edge cases is not justified.
>
> I think we'd have to do it with embedded Jetty, probably, not with actual
> infrastructure. Doable, I'm sure, but probably not worth much time right
> now.

+1

My suggestion is to write tests against whatever infrastructure is
expedient, but commit those tests disabled until we can build the test
infrastructure, whenever that is.