Re: [squid-users] Squid2-only plugin from Secure Computing

On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 11:08 +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Adam Carter wrote:
>
> > > > I think SmartFilter patches the squid source, so is tied to specific
> > > > versions. It certainly adds another option to the configure script.
> > > > You can download it for free from SecureComputing's website and have
> > > > look. Sorry I cant be more helpful but I'm not a developer.
> > > >
> > > > Smartfilter 4.2.1 works with squid 2.6-17.
> > > >
> > > > http://www.securecomputing.com/index.cfm?skey=1326
> > >
> > > FYI: We have started talking to Secure Computing regarding Squid3
> > > compatibility of the SmartFilter plugin. I will keep you updated.
> >
> > Thanks Alex, good to hear. Hopefully you can some up with a model that will allow us to apply squid bigfixes without compromising SecureComputing support.
>
> Well, we could also talk to them about rolling their existing patches
> into the Squid-2 codebase.

I doubt their existing patches should be included in Squid sources
because they are relatively large and very SmartFilter-specific. It
would be rather unfair to ask Squid developers to maintain that code,
and there are better alternatives to simply dumping parts of custom
filters into Squid (e.g., ICAP and eCAP).

Alex.
Received on Tue Apr 22 2008 - 13:25:32 MDT