On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 2:02 PM, Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 7:10 AM, Ruediger Pluem <rpl...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 08/26/2016 05:02 AM, William A Rowe Jr wrote:
>>> A couple key questions now that the full refactoring of legacy vs. strict 
>>> is mostly complete (there remain potential
>>> issues with some of the 3-4 yr old changes on trunk which I'll raise in 
>>> other posts.) But speaking only to the request
>>> line and request header parsing...
>>>
>>> 1. Does it make sense to emit these parsing failures at the info level? Or 
>>> debug level (or in trunk/2.4, only at the
>>> trace level?) Granted some legitimate internal diagnostics may be required, 
>>> so it needs to have some potential
>>> visibility, but the vast majority of such traffic is abusive and doesn't 
>>> need a place in most error logs.
>>
>> Debug
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Should we ban \r\n\v\f unequivocally from request and request header 
>>> fields altogether, or is there a legitimate need
>>> to support these? Or should these follow the UnsafeWhitespace toggle and be 
>>> permitted?
>>
>> We should ban it unequivocally.
>>
>>>
>>> 3. Do we need multiple layers of 'Strict'ness, or should there be a single 
>>> toggle, or no toggle, no tolerant input at
>>> all in the next 2.2/2.4 releases?
>>
>> Only a single toggle.
>>
>>>
>>> 4. Should the next 2.4/2.2 releases default to Strict at all? Or remain 
>>> permissive (Unsafe) and allow the user to toggle
>>> these to Strict(... Whitespace... URI)?
>>
>> Default should be strict.
>>
>
> +1

+1

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