Re: [squid-users] Request for Guidance from Glos University, UK

Yubraj Sharma Dhakal wrote:
> Dear Sirs,
>
> I am doing the Msc dissertation on COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF WEB CACHING
> AND CONTENT BLOCKING TECHNIQUES at Gloucestershire University, UK . I
> have decided to implement and test SQUID and POLIPO in terms of the
> above two features... i.e web caching and content blocking in linux
> machine. What would be the best approach to perform this analysis.
> Sir, what would you recommend?
>
> I would like to further analyse THE ARCHITECTURE and ALGORITHM of
> these two softwares. Could you please recommend a way to understand
> these two features. I have tried my best to get the resources about
> them... but they do not demonstrate their architecture nor the
> algorithm.
>
> Wishing to hearing from you soon.
>
> Sincerely Yours
> Yubraj Sharma Dhakal

Greetings,

Architecture:
  * not sure about polipo.
  * Squid does not have one. At least formally. It's a collection of
features designed as miniature state engines thrown onto an event driven
  * There has recently been an effort to design an architecture which
will allow SMP support to be developed properly. You can read the bare
bones of it here http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/SmpSupport though
since that architecture does not exist yet, I'm doubtful of its use to
your project.

Algorithm:
  * Several hundred of those currently in Squid. No one of the
developers knows them all.
  * Good luck. I've been flow-charting the main processing pathway for
several months now and only just reached what I estimate as the middle.
Long ways to go before its really usable.

Amos

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