Re: [squid-users] Filter by time and white-black lists

From: Marcus Kool <marcus.kool_at_urlfilterdb.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 11:15:36 -0200

On 01/22/2013 02:10 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> On 22/01/2013 2:22 a.m., Marcus Kool wrote:
>> Although Squid ACLs can do almost anything they are not the simplest
>> thing to configure. A URL redirector like ufdbGuard offloads work from Squid
>> and can do the same thing using a more intuitive configuration:
>>
>
> I don't see how {} syntax with lots of "pass none" inside else conditions can be more intuitive.
> Note the following direct 1:1 translation of UFDB syntax into Squid syntax.
>
> Also, the overheads of using the URL redirector interface to Squid place a lot of limitations on what transaction details can be tested for and additional processing Squid must perform in order to
> utilize the helpers results.
>
> PS. if this is the main pull ufdbGuard has nowdays would you consider joining the squid dev team and helping the efforts to further improve the squid.conf syntax, parse, and ACL processing?

Amos

Most likely I am biased since I am maintainer of ufdbGuard and
most likely you are biased since you are maintainer of Squid.

I did not want to start a flame of any kind.

Marcus
Received on Tue Jan 22 2013 - 13:15:55 MST

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