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

[Eliezer Croitoru]

I wanted to be sure I am not day-dreaming but from the code it seems that every request is given a single TCP connection.
Am I right?
If so there is much to improve.
You can use the same tcp connection for more then a single request and also have a reconnect option for the very far from realiy case of a closed connection.

All The Bests,
Eliezer

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Eliezer Croitoru
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nishant Sharma [mailto:codemarauder at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 06:40
To: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>
Cc: squid-users at lists.squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid



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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