[squid-users] light weight ICAP server that isn't dead :o)

[James Leu]

Not sure if this is usefull to anyone.  Here is a simple perl server that
tries to implement ICAP.  YMMV (attached)

On Mon, Feb 09, 2015 at 05:18:36PM -0700, Luis Miguel Silva wrote:
> Thanks Amos.
> 
> Well, that's exactly what I'm going to need to develop too (the plugin
> part), I just found it weird that the C-ICAP service was still version
> 0.3.5, even though it was really old. If it is mature, I would expect it to
> get to v1.0 and cease development :o)
> 
> So...what one would you recommend if you wanted to easily create
> (lightweight) custom filtering capabilities?
> I'm very inclined to adopt c-icap. Thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luis
> 
> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3 at treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > On 10/02/2015 12:00 p.m., Luis Miguel Silva wrote:
> > > Dear all,
> > >
> > > I'm looking for a light weight (opensource) ICAP server project that
> > isn't
> > > dead.
> > > I need to create some custom content filters but, I'm having a hard time
> > > finding an ICAP server that is being actively worked on...
> > >
> >
> > The ICAP servers you are looking at are framework servers that "just"
> > decode the on-wire protocol and pass it to a plugin module, and reverse
> > that for the results. That is all they have to do and its quite simple,
> > the protocol itself is 12 years old. So you wont really see huge amounts
> > of ongoing change in any of them.
> >
> > Theres a whole other category of ICAP server, such as AV vendors. They
> > get a lot more active turnover on their software, but are all about
> > custom integration for the filtering activity they do rather than
> > generic plugin engines. And again most of the code churn is in the
> > filtering parts not the ICAP bits.
> >
> >
> > > In the squid wiki <
> > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/ICAP#ICAP_Servers>,
> > > I was able to find the following ICAP server implementations:
> > > - C-ICAP <http://c-icap.sourceforge.net/>
> > > -- lates release was in October 2014 (which is pretty good) but the
> > latest
> > > version is 0.3.5. *How stable is it?*
> > > - Traffic Spicer <http://spicer.measurement-factory.com/>
> > > -- Squid's docs point to this page <
> > http://spicer.measurement-factory.com/>
> > > but I couldn't even figure out where to download it or find any
> > > documentation for it.
> > > - ICAP-Server <http://icap-server.sourceforge.net/>
> > > -- latest version for it is 1.2.1 but it is dated from October 30, 2002.
> > > - POESIA <http://www.poesia-filter.org/>
> > > -- this one points to a German page that doesn't seem to have anything to
> > > do with ICAP...
> > > - GreasySpoon <http://greasyspoon.sourceforge.net/>
> > > -- this one seems to have been discontinued
> > >
> > > The most interesting one seems to be C-ICAP but I don't like that it
> > hasn't
> > > even reached a 1.0 version...
> > >
> > > What do you guys recommend I adopt?
> > >
> >
> > c-icap.
> >
> > Though I have to disclaim a slight bias. The c-icap author is one of our
> > more active Squid developers.
> >
> >
> > You might also look into eCAP. The design intention is that you build an
> > eCAP module which can plug into either the c-icap engine for access over
> > ICAP or be loaded by Squid for faster processing directly on the HTTP
> > traffic flow.
> >
> > Amos
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> >


-- 
James R. Leu
jleu at mindspring.com
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