Re: Feature: quota control

Isn't requests really just an external acl helper?

On 27/02/2009, at 8:36 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:

> I'm looking at implementing this as part of a contract for squid-2.
>
> I was going to take a different approach - that is, i'm not going to
> implement quota control or management in squid; I'm going to provide
> the hooks to squid to allow external controls to handle the "quota".
>
>
>
> adrian
>
> 2009/2/21 Pieter De Wit <pieter_at_insync.za.net>:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I would like to offer my time in working on this feature - I have
>> not done
>> any squid dev, but since I would like to see this feature in Squid, I
>> thought I would take it on.
>>
>> I have briefly contacted Amos off list and we agreed that there is
>> no "set
>> in stone" way of doing this. I would like to propose that we then
>> start
>> throwing around some ideas and let's see if we can get this into
>> squid :)
>>
>> Some ideas that Amos quickly said :
>>
>> - "Based" on delay pools
>> - Use of external helpers to track traffic
>>
>>
>> The way I see this happening is that a Quota is like a pool that
>> empties
>> based on 2 classes - bytes and requests. Requests will be for
>> things like
>> the number of requests, i.e. a person is only allowed to download 5
>> exe's
>> per day or 5 requests of >1meg or something like that (it just
>> popped into
>> my head :) )
>>
>> Bytes is a pretty straight forward one, the user is only allowed x
>> amount of
>> bytes per y amount of time.
>>
>> Anyways - let the ideas fly :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Pieter
>>
>>

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