Re: Reading ACL configuration files every request

Updated patch attached

ons 2011-11-09 klockan 16:03 +0100 skrev Henrik Nordström:
> sön 2011-11-06 klockan 00:39 +0000 skrev Andrew Beverley:
>
> > Understandably, the file only appears to be read when the configuration
> > file is parsed, rather than each time the ACL is checked. However, I
> > need it to be checked more often, as I have a system configuration
> > interface that writes a day of the week to the file, which subsequently
> > causes a splash page to be shown on a particular day. I would like
> > configuration to be done without having to reload the Squid
> > configuration file.
>
> I had a patch to squid-2 to selectively reload specific acls only to
> have them refresh their included content, reevaluate ip lookups etc.
> Never got applied as it was using the cachemgr interface and we did not
> want to add more active actions to cachemgr. But this should be
> revisited when we have a better control channel.
>
> Regarding making FORMAT optional to external_acl_type, this is a trivial
> change, just didn't think there was any valid use of it when the
> directive was implemented. Please try the attached trunk patch which
> also adds %%{statictext} just in case someone needs to fake format
> arguments to some helper.
>
> Regards
> Henrik