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

[Alejandro Martinez]

Hi all

there is an interesting project here (https://github.com/netom/pyicap) with
some examples about implementing an Icap Server


2015-02-10 5:21 GMT-02:00 Yuri Voinov <yvoinov at gmail.com>:

>
> 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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