[squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

[Nishant Sharma]

Hi Eliezer,

On 14 June 2017 11:07:16 PM IST, Eliezer  Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il> wrote:

>I want to offer you a more advanced helper that supports actual
>concurrency compared to the current perl helper on github,
>which understands the protocol but do not use threads or any other
>method of concurrency.
>
>Let me know if it's of any interest for you.
>The skeleton is at:
>http://wiki.squid-cache.org/EliezerCroitoru/GolangFakeHelper

Thanks a lot for the offer. It surely is interesting.

The current state of helper is due to the fact that it was written for embedded/low powered devices running Linux. OpenWrt doesn't cross-compile Go as of now, so we had to go for Perl. It is good enough for low request proxies at small offices.

We are modifying it as per recommendations by Amos and will check-in the updated code soon.

>I am willing to take my time and write the code for you. So..

Glad to know about your willingness to write it in Go. It will help the community at large to run it on more powerful machines that serve a lot of requests.

Another version of helper that we are writing will use memcached on local proxy to cache the access granted from the cloud server and will greatly increase the speed.

Regards,
Nishant
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