Re: [RFC] Policy Change on half-closed connection

On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 20:52 +1200, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Basically bug 2431
> http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=2431.
>
> Alex mentions seeing bad side effects and it being maybe unsuitable for
> a stable release.
>
> I posit that it is suitable to change the cause of a major bug in the
> stable release and a config default is safer than a core code change.
>
> As for further testing, we have a few users who have encountered the bug
> already and tested the config change. With good results. Henrik reports
> that many of his customers have done so as well.
>
> People who have explicitly set their configuration and are happy are
> not affected. For those who need to enable it, I think we have 3-HEAD
> and 2.7.

Given the likely broken support for half-closed clients in v3.0 and
Henrik's conviction that the option is useless or harmful, I am OK with
changing the default for half_closed_clients from "on" to "off" in v3.0
and taking our chances. If you ask squid-users to try the "off" setting
first, that would be even better.

We can also print a warning if it is explicitly set to "on" and point
the admin to this email thread.

If we receive no complaints about the new setting, we can remove
half-closed client support in v3.2.

HTH,

Alex.
Received on Mon Sep 15 2008 - 01:38:35 MDT