Allow sending message output to a HTTP(S) URL

[aslakhellesoy]

We want to make it easy for users to publish their results to external services. Allowing users to specify a URL to send results to should help.

I'm fully aware that this is a fragile solution - if the server is unavaible there is no way to resend the messages - cucumber would have to be run again.

We will also provide guidelines about alternative, more robust mechanisms to publish results, such as:

• Write messages to a file
  • Use cURL to publish after cucumber is done
  • Write messages to the CI server's "artifacts" directory and have a process somewhere else that can download them

I've implemented this for cucumber-ruby in cucumber/cucumber-ruby#1395

Anyone wants to take a crack at this?

[charlierudolph]

Is this really something we should have built into the tool? Seems simple enough to create a tiny script that runs after the tests finish

[davidjgoss]

Okay I get this now I have seen Aslak's Smartbear talk. Could be a little tricky as it would be different implementations for Node vs browser. I'll take a look when I get past this messages/CCK stuff.

[davidjgoss]

Closing as dup of newer #1423