Justin Erenkrantz wrote:
> On 6/11/07, Dan Christian <dchristian@google.com> wrote:
>> I've got 2 major operational problems with serf at the moment (this is
>> after
>> Jason fixing several issues. Thanks!). Neither is technically a serf
>> issue, but they none the less make serf un-usable.
>>
>> serf over SSL trips a core dump due to a double free bug in
>> libcrypto-0.9.8/libssl-0.9.8. neon hits this as well, but serf hits
>> it much
>> more often. I can't get through any of my big test cases without a
>> fault.
>
> Huh. If you can provide some information about this, I'll see what we
> can do - but if Neon hits it too, then it's likely an OpenSSL bug...
> =(
>
>> serf doesn't play well with some http-1.1 implementations (specifically
>> code.google.com). neon does fine here. It raises the issue of how
>> many bad
>> http-1.1 implementations there are and how to validate serf to be "good
>> enough" to be the default.
>
> Well, to be quite emphatic: Google does *not* support HTTP/1.1 - it is
> a quite blatant RFC violation on Google's part. While I was at
> Google, Greg and I talked at length about whether we should work
> around it in serf - and we came to the opinion that it is reasonable
> for serf to expect RFC-compliant server implementations. Everyone
> else is going to be using Apache or IIS or Squid which doesn't have
> this particular brain damage with respect to the RFC - and,
> realistically, almost everyone will be using Apache 2.x. So, I don't
> support crippling serf just to support non-compliant HTTP/1.1 server
> implementations - even if it is Google. -- justin
I understand the desire for purity... but if svn all of a sudden became
incompatible while Google Code, I believe people would see that as a
regression. I can already see the flame wars on users@...
Just my 2 cents.
-John
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Received on Tue Jun 12 09:49:09 2007