[squid-dev] [RFC] deprecating ICP protocol

Kinkie gkinkie at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 10:23:09 UTC 2014


Hi,
  can it be salvaged somehow instead? e.g. having an ICP 2.0 which
includes the information needed in the modern world?

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
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> I would like to deprecate ICP protocol from a first-class citizen to a
> second-class. Swapping it for HTCP as the default peer exchange
> protocol for Squid-3.6.
>
> ICP protocol was designed for use in HTTP/1.0 and works well for that.
> However Squid and most servers are now HTTP/1.1 software.
>
> ICP is not able to produce accurate results for the increasingly
> popular HTTP/1.1 Vary objects. It will also have difficulty with
> Store-ID adapted objects where header fields (Vary and others) are
> used by the Store-ID helper.
>
> Amos
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