RE: what is FLAPON & PROPFIND ?

<rant character=subdued>

The solution is to use mail protocols (POP, SMTP, IMAP) for mail, and use HTTP
for web browsing.
HTTP is becoming the catch-all tunnel for all sorts of unsavory,
poorly-thought-out applications. It was a mistake to allow for extensions
in the newer HTTP standards. Because of this, proxy firewalls have become
firesieves, allowing all sorts of questionable traffic to masquerade as HTTP
requests, and tunnel right through the firewall despite policies that might
otherwise forbid such traffic. It is a bad idea, a bad application of the
web, and I do not wish support for it to be added to Squid. If support is
added, please ensure that I can toggle it off.

</rant>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Federico Giannici [mailto:giannici@neomedia.it]
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 1999 2:32 AM
> To: squid-users@ircache.net
> Subject: Re: what is FLAPON & PROPFIND ?
>
>
> Dave J Woolley wrote:
> >
> > > From: Jorg B. [SMTP:jorg_b@cwo.com]
> > >
> > > 1999/06/03 15:06:29| parseHttpRequest: Unsupported method 'PROPFIND'
> > >
> > This has been discussed on the list recently. It is
> > inappropriate use of a new HTTP method (in, I think,
> > a draft standards stage) by, I believe, Outlook.
> >
> > Fixes: Stop people trying to access Outlook mail servers
> > through your cache, or complain to Microsoft about
> > inappropriate use of new methods, or look through the list
> > archive for possible source patches to make squid handle
> > this.
>
> Unfortunately the currently available patch solves only a part of the
> problem so currently squid cannot work with Outlook Express 5.
>
> This is a GREAT problem expecially for all the people using squid with
> trasparent proxy!
>
> And Microsoft doesn't help to avoid the problem because it uses a miriad
> of OE5's mail servers, from many different networks.
>
> I'd like to know if any of the squid developers is currently working to
> solve this problem, or if I have to find some other solution...
>
> Thanks,
>
Received on Fri Jun 04 1999 - 19:20:48 MDT