RE: [squid-users] Accessing allowed URLs from MySQL

The archive links worked, but the files that you used to be there are no
longer available. I've tried getting in touch with the person who
created the patch but his email address is now invalid. So it looks like
I may have to have a go at creating my own helper. Thanks for your help.

> Did you try the archive link I provided in my previous response below?

> As for using PHP I see no reason why writing a PHP console application
to
> do the job would not work.

> Regards
> Henrik

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Glynn Robinson wrote:

> I've scoured the web for the mysql_acl patch but it doesn't seem to be
> available anywhere. You suggested writing my own MySQL external ACL
> helper. I've never used Perl (the language you suggested using) but I
> was just wondering if it would be possible to do it using PHP? I do
have
> experience with PHP and accessing MySQL from within it but I am a
> complete newbie when
> it comes to Squid.
>
>> Sounds like your old Squid included an inofficial patch for
> integration
>> with MySQL.
>
>> Probably the patch by Matthew Naylor linked from the
>> devel.squid-cache.org. Unfortunately his page is not available
anymore
> but
>> it is archived by the WayBackMatchine (great tool btw)
>> http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www->
>> users.york.ac.uk/~mfn100/squid_mysql.html
>
>> To my knowledge noone has written an external_acl replacement for
this
>
>> yet. If you know a little of programming in any language with mysql
>> support you are welcome to take a stab at this. To give some scale on
> the
>> project writing an mysql external_acl helper in for example perl
> should
>> not be much more than a handful of lines, plus command line parameter
>> parsing, usage instructions etc if desired to make it easy to use.
>
>> Regards
>> Henrik
>
>
>
>
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Received on Mon Feb 07 2005 - 13:41:05 MST