Re: status of internal redirectors?

On tor, 2008-05-08 at 08:35 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote:

> I am not sure this is the same topic, but I have already raised doubts
> (on the wiki and in the bug report) that we should extend the
> Squid-specific helper interface significantly beyond its current
> relatively simple state. I still believe it is worth discussing whether
> more complex uses should be routed through ICAP or eCAP instead of
> slowly inventing yet another complicated and poorly maintained traffic
> adaptation interface.

I think Mark is talking about the store url rewriter. It's a cache
maintenance function, not really modifying the request/response in any
manner, and I don't see how to fit that in ICAP or even the goals of
eCAP.

But it's possible eCAP may grow in future to include such things..

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu May 08 2008 - 21:20:00 MDT