Re: [RFC] MERGE: chunked-encoding patch for 3.0

On 05/03/2009 12:47 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> The Gentoo project have back-ported the chunked-encoding changes from
> 3.1 to 3.0.
>
> Votes please on whether it should be merged into 3.0 officially or left
> as a patch?
>
> I've held off so far due to 3.0 being under freeze and 3.1 already
> available for those who need it. Also the amount of work needed to do
> this counted against.
>
> Alin brings up a good point though about other peoples views of
> stability being stricter despite their need of this being no less.
>
> With the work now being done I'm minded to apply if others agree.
>
> Ref:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~mrness/distfiles/squid-3.0.14-chunk-encoding.patch.gz
>
> I've held off since 30 is stable

Handling chunked messages is, essentially, a bug fix, although the bug
is not in Squid. Production caches do see problems with broken HTTP
clients and servers insisting on chunks. Since v3.1 will not become
officially stable next week, we should probably apply this fix to
relieve the pressure.

If we do apply this, should we apply chunked _request_ support hack as
well? That change is available as two 3.0 patches and has received some
production testing (v3.1 and trunk port are almost done):

 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rousskov/squid/3p0-plus/revision/8899.1.27
 http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~rousskov/squid/3p0-plus/revision/8937

Thank you,

Alex.
Received on Sun May 03 2009 - 22:38:15 MDT