got it! thank you very much, Amos! T On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 30/03/2012 7:02 a.m., Tianyin Xu wrote: >> >> Hi, Amos, >> >> Thanks a lot for the response!! >> The thing I'm still not clear is that it still works when I set the >> limit to "1 bytes" which is obviously less than the size of any error >> message. So, it means any small setting of this directive won't cause >> infinite loop/crash results but only limit the response objects. Am I >> right? > > > It was fixed a while back, but there are still older versions still being > distributed with some operating systems. For exampel, LTE releases with 5-10 > year support cycles. Being able to use 1 byte limit is a good sign that your > Squid is not affected. The point of the documentation warning is to make you > be careful and check when going small. > > >> >> This brings the fundamental difference to me. If it may fall into an >> infinite loop, the admin should be really cautious and conservative. >> Otherwise, it doesn't matter too much (at most reject sth) and can be >> set aggressively. > > > It is reasonable to retain the conservatism regardless of this bug and test > your version before changing these limits. The effects of limiting responses > is clearly visible to the end users, even if this bug is fixed in your > Squid. > > Amos -- Tianyin XU, http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tixu/
