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

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008, Alex Rousskov wrote:
>
> > > 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).
>
> Hm, I haven't looked at the patchset yet - I assume its in the 53 meg download?
>
> Much like any other submission, it might need some tidying up to be more
> suitable; I'm reasonably surprised they've not approached anyone about trying
> to include this work into the mainline Squid tree (to make their lives easier!)
> in the past.

Well, AFAICT most of SmartFilter's functionalities might be very
simply reworked to an external authorization helper.

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