[pkg-squid-devel] squeeze update of squid3?

[Amos Jeffries]

On 30/07/2015 10:12 a.m., Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 28/07/2015 6:42 a.m., Raphael Hertzog wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>>> That redesign has proven non-trivial and halted the (brief) two attempts
>>> I've made at it so far. Anyone wanting to dig in and assist is welcome.
>>> I can offer naming credits in the official Advisory document, and
>>> gratitude from all distros for a working Squid 3.3 or earlier patch.
>>
>> I gave a try at this... I have something that compiles but I won't have
>> the time to test it any time soon (vacation coming up). It was definitely
>> not trivial to backport and I made the choice to backport
>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~squid/squid/3.4/revision/12905 too otherwise
>> I could not imagine any way to do it.
>>
>> I would be glad if someone else could test it and review it.
>>
>> It's a patch for the Debian package in Debian 6 squeeze, thus 3.1.6.
>>
>> Beware, I have almost zero practical experience with C++ and there might
>> be some newbie mistakes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
> 
> Thank you VERY much !
> 
> Code looks okay to me just reading through it. No problems on the newbie
> front ;-)
> 
> Sadly I dont have a Squeeze system anywhere handy. Will be trying to
> confirm it on a 3.3 build today.
> 

Confirmed working. I managed to get 3.1 built from source and it passes
my PoC testing without breaking regular CONNECT / HTTPS traffic in any
noticable way.

As promised Advisory updated. Just waiting on the site mirrors pick up
the change.


Thank you again Raphael.

Amos