[Mongrel-development] Small updates and release plan

Filipe
Tue, 11 Dec 2007 01:22:29 -0000

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On Mon, 10 Dec 2007, Zed A. Shaw wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:11:38 +1100
> Dave Cheney <dave at cheney.net> wrote:
>
>> Yes - it means using nginx as a proxy to mongrel will actually work !
>>
>> The current behavior ''stuns'' nginx every time mongrel
decides it
>> doesn''t like the request as passed (which is fair, nginx
isn''t as
>> strict in its request parsing as mongrel) causing it to try every
>> mongrel in the balancer group in quick succession. The patch makes
>> mongrel behave correctly according to the spec and report the correct
>> error rather than relying on nginx to pass back a 50x when there are
>> no mongrel left.
>
> Which part of the spec?  ''Cause last time I looked that part of
the spec only applied to a webserver talking to a client.  NOT to a proxy server
which, if written correctly, should try the next server when the one it just
tried dies.

Who invited this Zed-guy to the list? He is just spreading FUD around here :)

Anyway, the return code is defined in [1]. you know, it''s not because
your code works right(TM) that all code in the world will work ok
too... and implementing this even clients will display the correct
HTML code.

1. http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html#sec10.4.1

Cheers,


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