Re: [apache-ssl] Assertions considered bad!? (was: Re: [apache-ssl] Invalid method in request)

[Ralf S. Engelschall]

On Wed, Nov 18, 1998, Ben Laurie wrote:

>[...] 
> > My $0.02, if it's worth anything.  But if that's the way you code
> > Apache-SSL, I'm very glad my friend pointed me to mod_ssl.
> 
> If you want to use a system where programming errors are "corrected" by
> removing the assertions that reveal them, that is your choice, of
> course.

Please be technical only and correct. The assertions were not just removed in
mod_ssl. They were replaced with run-time checks which pass the error up to
the callers and there it's handled without and exit(). And IMHO the assertions
were also not assertions for programming errors. Because why has asserting the
returned number of bytes from read() anything to do with a programming error?
It's just an I/O error.

OTOH gcache (where the assertions originally were used) is already
gone in mod_ssl 2.1...
                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
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