Re: Unknown method handling in squid 2.x

>
> On 12/08/2008, at 4:05 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>
>>>
>>> On 16/07/2008, at 4:12 PM, Benno Rice wrote:
>>>
>>>> Here are two patches against squid 2.HEAD.
>>>>
>>>> The first completely changes the nature of method_t in order to
>>>> allow squid to pass through methods it doesn't know about. What is
>>>> currently called method_t becomes method_code_t and method_t becomes
>>>> a structure containing a method_code_t and a string for the method
>>>> itself. We have a bunch of pre-allocated method_t's for methods we
>>>> know about and any method we don't know about ends up with a code of
>>>> METHOD_OTHER and a specially allocated method_t.
>>>>
>>>> The second patch builds on the first by adding proper purge
>>>> behaviour in response to unknown methods and methods that are
>>>> specified as causing object purges.
>>
>> By that do you mean you are syncing with the logic fix made for 3.1?
>
> I didn't directly refer to that, no. I set up a set of simple unit
> tests that checked compliance against the RFC and tweaked it until it
> passed.

Okay. Nice.

The two versions will need to be checked for differences then. We don't
want to loose any improvements done in the back-port. If the unit-test can
be applied to 3.x too that would be great.

Amos
Received on Tue Aug 12 2008 - 06:29:32 MDT