It is not supposed to be possible. We include a CRC32 with each message, so invalid requests should be detected and rejected. But that does not preclude the possibility that we missed a case.
-Jay On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Tim Lossen <t...@lossen.de> wrote: > hi, > > is it possible for a faulty client to "corrupt" a topic on the broker, > so that consumers cannot consume messages any more? or does > the broker protect itself against this? > > i am asking because we seem to have run into such a situation. > we are using a perl producer and a ruby consumer. the per lib might > be a bit outdated. > > cheers > tim > > -- > http://tim.lossen.de > >