Re: external acl cache level

(Sory for the delay).

On 5/23/06, Henrik Nordstrom <henrik@henriknordstrom.net> wrote:
> tis 2006-05-23 klockan 11:08 -0300 skrev Gonzalo Arana:
>
> > I would like to have a somehwat explicit cache level. Alternatives to this is:
> > a) expand %| to some string: discarded.
> > b) helper tells squid about format specification & cache levels upon startup.
> > c) squid notifies helper at startup about format & cache levels. If
> > there is any inconsistency, helper can notify admin.
> >
> > I prefer "b", but "c" sounds good as well.
>
> So lets explore "b".
>
> My initial thought was to have a standard command line argument making
> the helper print it's request format definition if none is specified in
> external_acl_type.

Sounds good for me.
And what about the initial message sent by the helper? I was thinking
in something like this:
format-line
cache-level-1-spec
cache-level-2-spec
...
cache-level-N-spec
empty_line

(obviously, all tags used in cache level specs must also be present in
'format-line').

Regards,

-- 
Gonzalo A. Arana