Re: Squid proxy + Antivirus?

Gerhard Rieger wrote:
>
> I use squid as standalone caching proxy;
> is there a way to automatically invoke an antivirus program
> (UNIX version like McAfee or VFind), for pages that Squid passes?
> If a solution for unpacking zip, tar etc. already exists all
> my problems would be solved :-)

Its probably easiest to write a separate program to do this, and make it a
parent of the squid. squid would then cache the virus-checked versions.

Using http-gw from the TIS fwtk toolkit would be a good starting point - it
has hooks in it already to edit content.

Jifl

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