Re: cachemgr interface

On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:

> What are the future plans for the cachemgr interface?

Keep it simple?

The original (not mine) idea was to have Squid output HTML-free and do all
the formatting in cachemgr.cgi or other scripts. This approach may be a
good compromise between very-human_friendly-and-hard-to-script_parse
output and very-human_unfriendly-and-easy-to-script_parse output.

An alternative is to mimic cool interfaces some commercial products have.
We will probably be looking at writing stuff in Java then.

A more complex question is how much pre-computing (not formatting) of raw
values should be done in Squid. For example, Squid currently maintains
many histograms and other data structures that are not really needed for
Squid operation. They are required for some administrative tasks though.

It is not clear if Squid should spit out raw data only and rely on
external scripts to accumulate and process that data. If Squid should do
internal preprocessing, it is not clear what the limits for such
preprocessing should be.

$0.02,

Alex.
Received on Tue Jul 29 2003 - 13:15:57 MDT