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29th June 2020

TIL Writing tests for the ASGI lifespan protocol with HTTPX — Uvicorn silently ignores exceptions that occur during startup against the ASGI lifespan protocol - see [starlette/issues/486](https://github.com/encode/starlette/issues/486).

Posted 29th June 2020 at 4:13 pm

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