Re: [squid-users] New generation redirector interface??

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, David Hubner wrote:

> I heard there is a new redirector interface apart from the old process of,
>
> Url IP/FQDN Username Method
>
> Could anyone tell me what it is and point me to any documention. I could not find any on www.squid-cache.org.

Squid-3 helper interface supports what is by the developers referred to as
"overlapping requests" where multiple requests is queued to the
redirector. The difference is an added request number infront of the
request

requestnumnber Url IP/FQDN Username Method

and the response needs to look like

requestnumber url

The helper may reorder the replies as it pleases. The intention of this
interface is to allow for a multithreaded lookup engine and similar,
reducing the number of processes required by allowing one process to
handle many concurrent requests.

This is also available in Basic and Digest authenticators, and the
intention is to extend this to support NTLM authenticators as well.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Thu Sep 02 2004 - 05:20:40 MDT