Re: [squid-users] Multiple icap servers

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 13:20 +0200, Travel Factory S.r.l. wrote:
> I'd like to create a chain of icap servers queried by one squid client but I was not able do to it.
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> >From some messages dated back to 2002 I understand that at that time (icap branching of squid 2) configurations commands were able to specify more than one servers but the code in squid only read and used the first one (I imagine the first one in each "category")....
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> Do you have any suggestion on how to use more than one icap server ?
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> I want to use a commercial AV scanner + clamav that sometimes are quicker to react to "nationalized" attacks. The commercial AV scanner can be used as a cache peer but in this way I lose the pc IP address.....
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> Any clue as to use an "icap broker" ? or some other stuff ?

> What about squid 3 ?

I can only answer that last question. ICAP server chaining or other
multi-server ICAP configurations are not supported in Squid3. There is
now Squid3 code that would make such support easier to implement, but I
doubt it will happen soon without patches or sponsorship.

HTH,

Alex.
Received on Wed Apr 25 2007 - 16:42:49 MDT