Re: eCAP: expose Squid or link with eCAP lib?

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@dont-contact.us>
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:00:44 +0900

On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Amos Jeffries wrote:

> I'd choose (3). Some of the basic types have clean headers already.
> Is it possible to incrementally grow eCAP access to the internals of
> squid? Starting with, ie just a buffer of page text, and work the API up?
> I mean, we publish the available cleaned squid .h for its use starting at
> lowest levels needed to support eCAP and working the way up to full
> control paths. So the eCAP library never defines its own seperate types
> publicly, but uses the squid ones as they get cleaned up.
>
> I imagine the basic first-signup users of eCAP will be wanting to perform
> content-filters on pages as they arrive. That only needs a read-only
> buffer of the page data and a hook to allow/deny the transaction.

If you don't tidy up stuff early on then you end up introducing more dependencies
which will make restructuring more of a pain.

Adrian

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