Re: [squid-users] Re: Problem with some Microsoft Sites

Linda W wrote:
> Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:
>> probably the problem reported is chunked-encoding related. Please
>> check:
>> http://squidproxy.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/chunked-decoding/
>>
>
> Blog entry
> "http://squidproxy.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/chunked-decoding/" posted on
> April 29, 2008 at 2:24pm says:
> [ The 3.0 code is just different enough that it would need a whole
> new ]
> [ back-port project to get it going well. The time and work that
> would ]
> [ take is being used instead to get 3.1 out faster. Which should
> be ]
> [ within a month of this writing so procrastinating could solve
> the ]
> [ problem for
> you. ]
> ---
>
> Curious -- how's 3.1 progressing?...or about how much of
> the month of work has been completed?
>
> (I'm presuming "within a month" figure you gave was probably
> an estimation of work left divided by percentage of work time(WT) devoted
> to the project --and-- that non-project related demands increased
> (reducing percentage of 'WT' available to spend on the SQ3.1 project,
> effectively multiplying the time), --or-- unforeseen or unexpected
> complexities (or 'gotchas'? :-)) arose, creating more work than initially
> planned when giving estimate.)
>
> Seems like software always expands to exceed the available
> time allocated for doing it....*ouch*... That trend will likely
> continue or get 'worse', as the software 'universe' expands and newer
> software relies on more layers of software that will have
> come before.
>
> Hmmm...reminds me of the accelerating expansion of the
> universe that some posit will eventually result in 'the big rip'...
> lets hope software doesn't mirror that theory...:-)
>

Sorry the timetable has slipped a little. We are down to 15 bugs and 4
'features' (well underway). Things have gone slightly quiet these last
few weeks. Hopefully that means more code done and tested ;-)

A pre-release is due out after those features are merged.

Amos

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