Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
On Sat, 30 Dec 2006, Tomasz Kojm wrote:
Freshclam provides this and much more.
Except the ability to operate from a given specific URL pointing to a file.
If the only updates come from freshclam-verified sources it wouldn't be so
bad. The problem comes up that other mechanisims are necessry for third
party databases.
I fully realize these aren't the clam teams problem. My question was not how
to integrate third party dbs - the question was, is there a compelling
reason to fail on a single corrupt line in a text database (or should
have been, I didn't specify it wasn't the core db). And the anwsers I've had
to that quesiton say, to me, that there isn't.
So I am going to work on a patch to allow clam to continue. I will attempt
to make it something that could go back to the main project with an option
to turn on and off, but if it isn't accepted, so be it. This will work
better for me -- and this is the beauty of open source.
There's no limitation for choosing a URL - you can put anything you like
in the freshclam.conf file. Using the --config-file=FILE option of
freshclam in non-daemon mode you can use any .conf file you like and so
any URL is yours to choose. The trick is to understand what handshaking
freshclam uses when talking to a 'real' server. I've not looked into it
but the source is available. It may be simple http.
dp
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