Re: Problems with Limecast Server

From: Sven Köhler <skoehler_at_upb.de>
Date: Sat, 17 May 2008 20:15:53 +0200

> Limecast is not using HTTP. It accepts HTTP requests, but it's responses
> is not HTTP even if it could have been.

Hmm, OK.

(If you say, Limecast accepts HTTP requests, then it sounds like there's
also something else it accepts - yet i'm not aware of something like a
ICY request - i think, sending HTTP request is quite standard for
cantacting these servers - yet they chose to break HTTP contract with
their response - shame on the guy who had that idea).

> To Squid the response looks like an headerless HTTP/0.9 response.
>
> Old versions of Squid passes such responses as-is, but the latest
> versions upgrade the seemingly HTTP/0.9 response to the HTTP version of
> Squid to avoid a number of issues at the HTTP protocol layer.

Old versions = 2.x ?
latest versions = 3.x ?

Is there some option, to turn off HTTP 0.9 transformation to HTTP 1.0?
This would already help A LOT in my case.

>> Any thoughts, on how to handle this?
>
> When such servers is found, add them to your blacklist of servers which
> should not be transparently redirected to Squid.

Tell me: would you do it that way? I don't think so. There are many
limecast server out there. And you surely don't want to add an
iptables-rule for all of them by hand.

Received on Sat May 17 2008 - 18:16:27 MDT

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