3.0.1 major bug

[Matthias Welwarsky]

Zitiere George Staikos <staikos at kde.org>:

> 
> 
> There is still a major bug in 3.0.1 as stands in CVS and we should not
> ship 
> until it is fixed.  It was caused by some of the HTTP and HTTPS related
> fixes 
> that went in a few weeks ago. This seems to be most noticeable while
> logging 
> into hotmail, though many other sites are affected.  It appears to only
> 
> happen in https, and it seems to have to do with keepalive.  The last
> time I 
> looked into it, the server was sending Connection: close but kio_http
> still 
> tried to call read() for some reason.  (After the connection closed). 
> This 
> resulted in an error message box, and it seemed like some things just
> plain 
> didn\'t work.  I should be able to investigate on Tuesday.  It is highly
> 
> unlikely that I will have time before then.

AFAIK, in HEAD there\'s a patch that disables keepalive for POST (and a few 
other) requests because this violates some RFC. Waldo, did you backport your fix 
to the stable branch? I didn\'t follow the thread once the patch got into HEAD...

regards,
        matze