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A guy on the team wasted a few hours yesterday, and several hours today tracking down idiosyncratic behavior between a browser and HttpUnit, and how they handled a test form. Apparently, HttpUnit uses JTidy, which will not parse invalid HTML that would otherwise make it past a browser. So, if your HTML is not a valid tree, and elements span inappropriate lexical boundaries (such as having a form begin in a table and end outside it), it'll puke on you.

Which is as it should, being a unit-testing framework. However, it should tell you.

And it will, if you call HttpUnitOptions.setParserWarningsEnabled( true ).

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