From: Daryl Tester (no email)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 19:19:44 EDT
Ken Murchison wrote:
>> Hey, it's no big deal--I'm sure I can handle counting characters ;-) But if
>> it ain't broke, don't fix it, huh?
> I think this is more of a move forward and a preemptive thing. Let's
> change it now before we realize that it is broken down the road.
I guess it's the old "in-band vs. out-of-band signalling" thing.
Squid's external authenticators communicated in a similar way, and
had an issue when someone figured out how to inject "\n"'s (Squid's
string separators) into the string.
-- Regards, Daryl Tester, Software Wrangler and Bit Herder, IOCANE Pty. Ltd. "Now is the Winter of our Discount Tent." -- The Red Green Show
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