[squid-users] Clarification on icap

[James Lay]

On 2016-09-26 10:40, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> On 09/26/2016 08:55 AM, James Lay wrote:
>> any recommended open source ICAP/eCAP services that squid works well 
>> with?
> 
> You do not need an ICAP/eCAP service that Squid works well with. You
> need an ICAP/eCAP service that integrates with your IDS. All production
> ICAP/eCAP services are doing some specific adaptation (e.g., downgrade
> image quality) or integrate with some specific adaptation library 
> (e.g.,
> ClamAV). They are useless to you unless they integrate with your IDS.
> 
> If there is no existing service that integrates with your IDS, you 
> would
> have to write and support one. If you go the ICAP route, many plug 
> their
> custom ICAP services into the free c-icap ICAP server. If you decide
> going the eCAP route, then you do not need a server (eCAP is a
> library/API, not a communication protocol, so your custom code plugs
> directly into the host application such as Squid).
> 
>   http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/ContentAdaptation
> 
> Alex.

Excellent...thanks so much Alex!

James