Re: Overview of source code for squid.

At 13:45 15/11/96 -0600, SL Tong wrote:
>Hi! I am involved in a class project to modify squid so
>that it performs smart prefetching. However, I was overwhelmed
>by the amount of code. Can anyone point me in the relevant
>directions (link, faq, whatever) as to how to get an overview
>of the source?

You could look at some of the old Harvest cached documents, to give you an
idea of the architecture, but AFAIK nothing talks about the source. UTSL ;-).

What I would recommend is _not_ integrate this directly as a part of squid,
but maybe just add a hook that maybe passes the location of a new stored
file, with respect to the cache directory down a pipe to an external
process, which will inspect the file, see if it has a Content-type header,
if so is it text/html, and then it does the prefetching asynchronously of
the rest of the squid.

Just my 2p.

Jonathan L.
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Received on Fri Nov 15 1996 - 12:17:55 MST