Re: [squid-users] push advertisement

Yep, that would be the Right Way. I was just mentioning the Right Now Way.

Of course...ICAP still hasn't gone past the "one-vendor has an
incomplete and somewhat outdated implementation" stage. As far as I can
tell, no one--literally no two people on the mailing list--can agree on
what ICAP should do, how it should do it, or even whether the ICAP
working group is the right place to talk about it! ;-)

Robert Collins wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joe Cooper" <joe@swelltech.com>
>
>>All of this is theoretical, I've never implemented such a thing, but
>>
> it
>
>>is certainly possible. It's just not terribly easy, because none of
>>
> the
>
>>developers of Squid ever thought of this as a useful (or beneficial)
>>feature. I can only think of two environments where it is really OK:
>>
> a
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>>free ISP, or an internet cafe. Both cases allow you to insist on ads
>>
> in
>
>>the terms of service. Would be pretty neat for those purposes though.
>>
>
> Or someone could contribute time to refactoring squids innards, so my
> content filtering becomes stable, and then ICAP is a trival patch on top
> of this. And ICAP is designed to allow this sort of data munging.
>
> I.e. the ads could be inserted inline.
>
> Rob
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>
>
>

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