On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 03:28:00PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Pierre Habouzit <madco...@madism.org> writes: > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:42:55AM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote: > > > >> 2) http proxy servers cannot always process pipelined requests due to > >> the complexity this adds (complexity is always bad for security), and > > > > This is bullshit. It's *VERY* easy to "support" pipelining: parse one > > request at a time, and until you're done with a given request, you just > > stop to watch the socket/file-descriptor for reading (IOW you let the > > consecutive request live in the kernel buffers). > > Yeah, you make it sound easy.
The fact is that it is. And I know it from a fact having implemented several custom http interfaces in the past. It's just _that_ easy. And since it's _that_ easy, when the broken proxy is free software, it shall be fixed. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madco...@debian.org OOO http://www.madism.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100520231042.gb23...@madism.org
