Squid-3 merge request

Hi Robert,

Is there any possibility to get a handful of new features merged into
Squid-3.0?

Candidates in my queue:

  - Collapsed forwarding
    <http://devel.squid-cache.org/collapsed_forwarding/>
    This is a big benefit for high traffic accelerator setups

  - Custom log formats
    <http://devel.squid-cache.org/customlog/>
    We all know the benefits and needs of this one. Long awaited
feature and very much needed.

  - ext_user acl type to match user name returned by external acl
    (not yet published)
    major cleanup of how external acls present a user name to the
Squid core. The "old" implementation in Squid-2.5 and Squid-3.0 is
somewhat broken and confusing, and also have minor security issues if
there is downstream proxies.

  - external acl fuzzy expiry to have external acls refreshed
asyncronously before they expire
    (not yet published)
    Helps reducing random latency when using external acls

  - additional external acl tags to match which port the request was
accepted on
    (not yet published)
    See below

  - external acl partial key caching. To have external acl entries
cached on a key smaller than the full lookup format specification.
    (not yet published)
    Interesting in many situations where the acl helper may need more
information than the result should be cached on. Exampels of use is
URL filtering, user identification (see below), and quite likely
other uses can be found as well.

  - external acl helper for psuedo-ident functionality just using
ident as a transport mechanism for finding out the user at a given
client station without having to perfor a new ident lookup for each
request (well, client connection at least).
    (not yet published, requires the above external acl extensions for
ports and partial key caching)

All are rather non-intrusive changes with mainly additions of new
features.

I can have the changes ready to be merged by the 7/7 if I receive a
goahead.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jun 25 2003 - 15:54:57 MDT