On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: ; Has anyone made it through the market-speak and glad-handing to actually ; figure out what it does? The best I can gather from it is that it's a ; generic content-filtering "protocol" geared towards cache boxes and other ; expensive hardware I don't have. I've not yet found an ICAP "client" (if ; I'm even reading things correctly).
The ICAP clients I've got experience of are Network Appliance Proxy servers (NetCaches) - I think that they were initially a big driver in the development of ICAP. The protocol itself looks very like HTTP (why reinvent the wheel I suppose) and is designed to be a generic content inspection / modification protocol - for example there are ICAP servers available which remove adverts from web pages. In general an ICAP server is more than just an AV engine (just like ClamAV by itself isn't an e-mail scanner). WebWasher is probably the best developed ICAP server I've seen to date (it's also resold by Network Appliance which might account for it) - http://www.webwasher.com/ Andy ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
