Opened 5 years ago

Closed 16 months ago

#1183 closed Bug / Defect (wontfix)

Display warning when connecting to compressing server with compression disabled in client

Reported by: cycloon Owned by: OpenVPN Inc.
Priority: major Milestone:
Component: OpenVPN Connect Version:
Severity: Not set (select this one, unless your'e a OpenVPN developer) Keywords: compression voracle
Cc:

Description

OpenVPN Connect on iOS currently disables compression as default. Given VORACLE that seems reasonable to me.

When connecting to a community server that uses and pushes compression you get a connection that seems to work. You can even ping through that tunnel. But if you do pretty much anything else, the tunnel does not work because the client does not compress.

To find out what is wrong, you have to stumble on one of these URLs:
https://forums.openvpn.net/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=27195
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/ticket/1126
https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/VORACLE

Of course that happens after some hours of debugging, tracing on server side and on client side.

Please considere the following Change Request:
Upon connecting to a server that uses compression or pushes compression via push "compress lz4-v2" display a warning to the user and write the same warning something to the log

Change History (3)

comment:1 Changed 3 years ago by Gert Döring

Owner: changed from yuriy to denys
Status: newassigned

comment:2 Changed 3 years ago by Antonio Quartulli

Owner: changed from denys to OpenVPN Inc.

comment:3 Changed 16 months ago by Gert Döring

Resolution: wontfix
Status: assignedclosed

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OpenVPN clients via the community bug trackers (here and in GH issues).

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