[squid-users] external helper

[Amos Jeffries]

On 5/03/20 11:26 pm, Vieri wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a perl helper script in Squid, and I've migrating to Squid 4 from Squid 3. It seems that there's an extra field in the string Squid passes to the helper program.
> 
> I'd like to know what the character "-" means at the end of the passed string as in this message:
> 
> external_acl.cc(1085) Start: externalAclLookup: will wait for the result of 'http www.fltk.org 80 / -' in 'bllookup' (ch=0x5633eaab2118).
> 

It means the 'acl' line in squid.conf did not contain any value to pass
as extra parameter(s) to that helper lookup.

See
<https://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/AddonHelpers#Access_Control_.28ACL.29>

Amos