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Enable VCR cassette recording and update existing cassettes #2004

Open johnpaulashenfelter opened 5 years ago

johnpaulashenfelter commented 5 years ago

A lot of our VCR cassettes are old -- as in years. Some examples popped up in

department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-api#3309 department-of-veterans-affairs/vets-api#3303

One of the impediments to re-running them is the areas where connectivity is and isn't allowed, even from staging. Without access from staging, there's pretty much no way to update a cassette (which begs the question about how they were recorded in the first place).

There's a couple of possible solutions to this:

None are perfect, but all are better than cassettes that may or may not reflect current reality.

mandifrances commented 4 years ago

@johnpaulashenfelter Is this something that we still want to do? If so, can you please remove the Product Support label and add the appropriate one?