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

Alex Rousskov wrote:
> 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
>

Agreed.

I'd would kind of rather see wider testing in trunk/3.1 before things go
into 3.0. How close is the port to merge that?

But if you believe the request bit has had sufficient testing already
and can bring the branch up to the result after reply patching I will
add to the chunked RC release for these over this weekend.
  Both can then have the full 8-week testing delay to STABLE16.

Amos

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