Re: Forward architecture.

Thats basically what Robert was proposing with his method changes
in squid-3 a few years ago.

Of course, what you really want to do is break out all of the magic
url manipulation stuff that happens for acceleration, because -that- stuff
gets rewritten far before the forwarding manager gets its hands dirty..

Adrian

On Sun, Feb 03, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> Well, kick me down if this is a brainfart instead of a good idea.
>
> While checking and re-working the use of HttpRequestMethod it occured to
> me that anything startign with a pure ascii word would now be identified
> as a valid METHOD_UNKNOWN. (nee. HttpRequest::sanityCheckStartLine)
>
> Also, that what I have seen of during debugging attempts at
> transparently passing P2P and IM traffic. That largely those protocols
> start with a plain-ascii method not belonging to HTTP.
>
> The idea that comes to me immediately is to make the forward handle a
> dispatcher/manager where the currently compiled additional-modules
> register themselves against various parameters (method, url-protocol,
> etc) and the forwarder hands of the connection data to them after
> checking these details. Defaulting to HTTP when unknown.
>
> This would enable easily plugged in extras to squid-3.
>
> Feedback?
>
> Amos
> --
> Please use Squid 2.6STABLE17+ or 3.0STABLE1+
> There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.

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