Re: Reading ACL configuration files every request

On Mon, 2011-11-07 at 11:59 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Well, in light of the facts that new helpers are only being added to
> 3.3 now

That's fair enough. I've attached my (fairly raw) helper to this email
anyway, just for the list archives, in case anyone else has use for it.

> and that live re-configuration via POST to the manager is very
> close now I'm not sure how much use this would be.

Sounds good. Look forward to it!

> > On a similar subject, is there any mileage in making the FORMAT
> > optional
> > for external_acl_type? There is obviously no need for it in this
> > case,
> > although as you have shown it is easy to workaround with a fairly
> > static
> > parameter.
>
> The long term plans are to make the external ACL format merge with log
> line format codes and add a format= option. Allowing far more
> flexibility in the format syntax.

Great news.

> I've just added support for the '%%' token which can be used for a
> completely static placeholder.

Thanks.

Andy