When we move to an remote device lab we will not be able to access content served by a local webserver. It's likely that we'll have a webserver available in the remote lab, so we need a way to specify the base URL to use.

Comment on attachment 8545186 [details] [diff] [review] bug1118697.patch Review of attachment 8545186 [details] [diff] [review]: ----------------------------------------------------------------- ::: testing/marionette/client/marionette/runner/base.py @@ +378,5 @@ > action='store', > + help='if omitted, a webserver will be started and will serve content from ' > + 'Marionette\'s own www resources. If a valid local path is provided then ' > + 'a webserver will be started serving content from the specified path. Any ' > + 'other value will be assumed to be a base URL for an existing webserver.') This seems a bit wordy, maybe something along the lines of: "A url to a webserver or path to a document root from which " "content resources are served (default '{}').".format(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(here), 'www')) @@ +605,5 @@ > + if self.server_root is None or os.path.isdir(self.server_root): > + host = '127.0.0.1' > + if need_external_ip: > + host = moznetwork.get_ip() > + docroot = self.server_root or os.path.join(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__)), 'www') optional nit: personally I like the convention of adding a global: here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

Try: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=try&revision=15e4304f55d6