Re: Squid 1.2b19 on NLANR caches broken

From: Eric Stern <estern@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:18:10 -0500 (EST)

On Mon, 30 Mar 1998, Dancer wrote:

> Duane Wessels wrote:
> >
> > "Jordan Mendelson" writes:
>
> > >GameSpy, a popular internet game server browser has a bug which makes it not
> > >put the 'HTTP/1.0' after the 'GET /URL' request. Squid doesn't understand
> > >this and forces an error. Unfortunatly, a lot of my users use this program.
> > >Is there a way to disable this behavorior?
> >
> > Not yet.
>
> The GameSpy developers (I am told) are pretty responsive to bug reports.
> It'd probably be easier and better to get them to add it in to their
> next GameSpy release (they come pretty frequently, if I recall
> correctly...More frequently than squid revisions) than to patch squid to
> encourage an incorrect behaviour.

I've already contacted them about this problem. The fix should be included
in the 2.0 release, which should be out Real Soon Now (tm).

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