[squid-dev] [RFC] annotate_transaction ACL

Alex Rousskov rousskov at measurement-factory.com
Mon Jul 11 05:31:08 UTC 2016


On 07/10/2016 05:29 AM, Kinkie wrote:
> Same thoughts as Amos: a common ACL switch to annotate results of the
> matching seems more natural from the user's perspective (although
> probably requires more code to implement).

AFAICT, Amos actually said the opposite -- he liked the proposed ACLs
"better" than the currently rejected alternative (B). Please see my
response for a list of (B) drawbacks (that Amos has requested). Do you
still favor (B)?

Alex.


> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 12:47 AM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
> 
>     On 10/07/2016 7:14 a.m., Alex Rousskov wrote:
>     >
>     > B. Add general ACL options to be able to force any existing ACL to add
>     > an annotation:
>     >
>     >     acl myOldAcl dst --annotate foo=bar 127.0.0.1/32 <http://127.0.0.1/32>
>     >
>     > Please let me know if you consider any of the above alternatives more
>     > attractive (than adding new ACLs) or need me to detail their drawbacks.
>     >
> 
>     I do like the below better. But for the record what was the drawback on
>     (B) that you saw as serious?
>      This used to be what we were planning to add one day.

>     > * acl aclname annotate_transaction key value [fast]
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