Re: Become a Squid Developer

Hi Eugene and thanks for your interest in becoming a Squid developer.
Instructions how to become a Squid developer can be found at the developer
web site <url:http://devel.squid-cache.org/howto.html>.

If you want to discuss the Squid code and implementation then it is
strongly recommended to subscribe to the squid-dev mailinglist. The rest
is optional but makes life easier.

But what you propose is most likely best done via a ICAP server
implementing the filtering process rather than modifying Squid. The
icap-2_5 branch reportedly supports sending request entities to the ICAP
server now so no modifications to Squid besides applying the icap-2_5
patch should be required. <url:http://devel.squid-cache.org/icap/>

When writing a ICAP server you can either start from one of the existing
frameworks, or write your own. The ICAP protocol as such is relatively
simple to implement. The main complexity is in the filter process,
especially if you consider filtering web-mail submissions for SPAM I
would think.

Regards
Henrik

On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Chijioke Kalu wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to contribute to the squid development project.
>
> Area I am interested in is to allow Squid to carry out POST message
> filtering, i.e., to use Squid and SpamAssassin to Filter Spam/Scam mails
>
> I have been following the ICAP development, but its yet to implement this
> and unfortunately, though still learning phython am deeply ingrained in
> C/C++
>
> I have no idea yet of the Squid structure and where i can start poking a
> patch at, but am hoping you could provide some guide/assitance.
>
> Thank You
>
> Eugene
>
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Received on Sun Dec 07 2003 - 14:55:17 MST