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.
>

Okay, I'll write up an announcement about it for users.

Amos
Received on Mon Sep 15 2008 - 03:10:41 MDT