[RFC] half_closed_clients Policy Change

Amos Jeffries <[email protected]> Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:03:12 +1200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.squid.announce
Message-ID <48D24380.70703__45307.6430982493$1221854911$gmane$org@treenet.co.nz>
     **** This RFC applies to all Squid 2.x and 3.x users ***

The developers have been made aware of a problematic bug in the old 
Squid logics behind the half_closed_clients setting.

Code has been written for release in 3.1 which should fix this, however
we would like to change the behavior of 3.0 and future stable releases 
to disable the half-closed logics unless explicitly wanted.

We need all users to please check their squid.conf for the 
'half_closed_clients' setting and test setting it to 'off'.
This means changing any already present or temporarily adding an entry 
if none exists.

If any issues are uncovered by doing so please contact 
[email protected] as soon as possible.

Absent any problems this is scheduled to be made formal policy from the 
release of 3.0.STABLE10 expected in 6-8 weeks.


Amos Jeffries