[or-cvs] r10966: Add compatibility note to control-spec.txt (in tor/trunk: . doc/spec)

[nickm@xxxxxxxx]

Author: nickm
Date: 2007-07-29 00:10:05 -0400 (Sun, 29 Jul 2007)
New Revision: 10966

Modified:
   tor/trunk/
   tor/trunk/doc/spec/control-spec.txt
Log:
 r13977@catbus:  nickm | 2007-07-29 00:09:52 -0400
 Add compatibility note to control-spec.txt



Property changes on: tor/trunk
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 svk:merge ticket from /tor/trunk [r13977] on 8246c3cf-6607-4228-993b-4d95d33730f1

Modified: tor/trunk/doc/spec/control-spec.txt
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--- tor/trunk/doc/spec/control-spec.txt	2007-07-29 04:06:11 UTC (rev 10965)
+++ tor/trunk/doc/spec/control-spec.txt	2007-07-29 04:10:05 UTC (rev 10966)
@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@
   Specific replies are mentioned below in section 3, and described more fully
   in section 4.
 
+  [Compatibility note:  versions of Tor before 0.2.0.3-alpha sometimes
+  generate AsyncReplies of the form "*(MidReplyLine / DataReplyLine)".
+  This is incorrect, but controllers that need to work with these
+  versions of Tor should be prepared to get multi-line AsyncReplies with
+  the final line (usually "650 OK") omitted.]
+
 2.4. General-use tokens
 
   ; Identifiers for servers.