[sldev] Deprecated protocol feature: stray colon in 500 response

[Tigro Spottystripes]

would it be an option to have the servers talk differently based on the
version of the client connecting to it? and would that help with the
issues present now? (like, wouldn't this make it so newer version have
to do it right while still allowing olders to do it wrong for a longer
while? )


Rob Lanphier escreveu:
> Hi folks,
>
> The current version of our server infrastructure for capabilities has a
> misfeature in it, where 500 responses have a stray colon in them.
> Capabilities are meant to be HTTP-compliant, but this stray colon is
> not.  However, that incompatibility is required to maintain
> compatibility with 1.20.17 and earlier viewers (and their derivatives).
>
> Maintaining this situation is a pain, because coercing standards-based
> infrastructure (like Apache) to do the wrong thing is a major pain.  We
> eventually would like to eliminate this aberration from our
> infrastructure, but that would mean that older viewers would stop
> working.  We'll give you plenty of warning before actually changing this
> infrastructure, but we figured it's best to get the technical
> information out now so that this will hopefully be a moot point by the
> time we announce a timeline.
>
> We're asking that everyone who has a viewer based on 1.20.17 and older
> to either upgrade to a newer base revision of the viewer (e.g. 1.21 or
> later) or apply a fix as described here:
> https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Deprecated_Protocol_Features#Deprecated_protocol_feature:__stray_colon_in_HTTP_500_responses_.28viewers_1.20.17_and_earlier.29
>
> ...with patches attached here:
> https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-12248
>
> Thanks!
> Rob
>
>
>
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