From: Zed Shaw <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2006-04-05T15:31:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Mongrel Web Server 0.3.12.1 -- Iron Mongrel




On 4/4/06 11:23 AM, "pat eyler" <pat.eyler@gmail.com> wrote:

> Heh, a new version on the day my mini writeup of 0.3.12 went live.  Isn't
> that the way things always go?   ;^)
> 
Where's your write-up?  Yeah, I'm pushing hard to 0.3.13 (and then 0.4
hopefully before or on Canada on Rails).  The core functionality won't
change, just stability and mostly debugging enhancements.

> This sounds very cool.   any chance you could write up some of your testing
> activity in more detail?   I think this would be a great way to learn more
> about testing beyond unit testing.
>

I'll see if I can write it up.
 
>> 
>> The end result is a lot of little fixes which make Mongrel more robust
>> against badly behaving clients and possibly against many potential security
>> risks in the future.  In general Mongrel 0.3.12.1 behaves more consistently
>> compared to past releases when given random data or maliciously formatted
>> data.
> 
> Again, seeing more specific examples (show us the code man!) would be
> awesome.
>

The majority of the changes were to simply stop accepting elements that were
above certain fixed lengths and to read smaller chunks of IO so that errors
are detected earlier.  I'll do a more complete write-up later when I can
breath.  Or maybe a BOF at CoR?

Zed A. Shaw
http://www.zedshaw.com/
http://mongrel.rubyforge.org/