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

[Yuri Voinov]

10.02.15 5:40, Amos Jeffries пишет:
> 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?*
Stable enougn. Used in my production over half year.
>> - 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.
Agreed. This project alive and software works perfectly.
>
> 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.
It uses a bit more difficult than c-icap, but very fast.
>
> Amos
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