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Re: feedback on the issue 12 patch?

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 14:40:17 -0800

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 02:14:32PM +0100, Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> Hi friends!
>
> There is now only ONE single issue left in the TODO-RELEASE[1] document
> waiting to get fixed before we can put together a new release. (If you know of
> other issues, patches, fixes, bugs or whatever for the upcoming release,
> please speak up.)
>
> That issues is the one we call "issue 12" and has been reported numerous times
> by people, and I believe I have gotten three or four different patches
> offering different solutions.
>
> I posted my patch[2] back on February 20, and I am still waiting for some kind
> of feedback on this. Xiuping Hu responded and said it fixed one of his
> problems but that it had a "timing problem" that he would get back to later.
>
> If you have a way to repeat this problem on a server of yours and can't get
> the time off to test this yourself, then I am interested in getting my hands
> on such a server to run a few tests of mine. The servers I've tried to verify
> my patch against have not been of the picky kind that "issue 12" was reported
> to show problems on in the first place so they haven't been very good.
>
> [1] = http://curl.haxx.se/lxr/source/TODO-RELEASE
> [2] = http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2004-02/0271.html
>
> I hope to release 7.11.1 before curl's 6th birthday, March 20th.

Well, this hardly qualifies as a thorough test, but I tried the unpatched
curl on an IIS server with NTLM authentication and got a "411 Length
Required" response; with the Feb 20 patch I didn't (I did get a 400 Bad
Request but that's because I was doing a POST when I should have been
doing a GET).

>>> Dan

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