> I was thinking about communicating > directly > with clamd through a UNIX socket, but I couldn't > find clamAV's protocol specification. Is there documentation on it? Do > you have any suggestion on how > to implement this virus scanning process?
Have you looked at Section 5 of clamdoc.pdf? [http://www.clamav.net/doc/0.81/clamdoc.pdf] It's also in the docs folder if you do a pull from CVS or download one of the stable source tarballs. Working with clamd is pretty straightforward. Once you have connected to the socket that clamd is listening on, you can send it a handful of command verbs: PING VERSION SCAN STREAM RELOAD SHUTDOWN Etc. In the case of a STREAM scan, clamd responds with a port to send the stream to. After you have connected, sent the stream, and closed the port, clamd reports the status of the scan in the session where you sent the STREAM command. > I'm at a Windows box right now Also, if you are developing on a Windows box you can connect to clamd on a remote UNIX host if you tweak clamd.conf to set up clamd to run listen on a TCP socket instead of a local socket in the clamd. Another, self-contained, alternative is to install Windows Services for UNIX (which includes the Interix POSIX subsystem) and SDK on your Windows box. SFU is free-of-charge from Microsoft. Once you have SFU/Interix running you can get the ClamAV package for Interix from the InteropSystems warehouse. [http://www.microsoft.com/windows/sfu/] [http://www.interopsystems.com/tools/warehouse.htm] Cheers. Brian A. Reiter WolfeReiter, LLC [http://www.wolfereiter.com]
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