The built-in test fails when Tor is not usable despite web crawling being available

[ajoga]

Summary

I understand Lacus can fetch content from both Tor websites and the normal internet.

An installation without configuring Tor will make the built-in test fail, when in reality web content can be fetched.

Step to reproduce

Follow the procedure from https://github.com/ail-project/ail-framework/blob/26f9e84d9796446cefa175eed78a0e89ebfda966/HOWTO.md#crawler

When running the test while you don't have a Tor socks listening, the test output will be the following:

One can confirm the web crawling works:

1. go to Manual crawler, set a public URL and crawler type = web.
2. go to Web crawler and observe that the URL was crawled (allow 10-30 seconds if that doesn't show right away)

Expected outcome

I would expect not to have the "Error" in red after the test for sure.

Ideally two tests, one for Web and one for Tor: there it would make sense for me to see one pass and one fail. Currently it feels like the whole test was unsuccessful.

[Rafiot]

I transferred this issue to AIL because I don't think it is related to lacus (?)

[Rafiot]

Hey, I just looked at the error message again, and just making sure of one thing: is tor up and running on the machine where lacus is installed? Because the error messages makes me think lacus cannot connect to the proxy, possibly because it's not there.

[ajoga]

is tor up and running on the machine where lacus is installed

No it is not, by design in our case.

[Rafiot]

Ok, I'll let @Terrtia take care of it then.