Thanks Amos. Well, that's exactly what I'm going to need to develop too (the plugin part), I just found it weird that the C-ICAP service was still version 0.3.5, even though it was really old. If it is mature, I would expect it to get to v1.0 and cease development :o)
So...what one would you recommend if you wanted to easily create (lightweight) custom filtering capabilities? I'm very inclined to adopt c-icap. Thoughts? Thanks, Luis On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Amos Jeffries <squ...@treenet.co.nz> wrote: > On 10/02/2015 12:00 p.m., Luis Miguel Silva wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > I'm looking for a light weight (opensource) ICAP server project that > isn't > > dead. > > I need to create some custom content filters but, I'm having a hard time > > finding an ICAP server that is being actively worked on... > > > > The ICAP servers you are looking at are framework servers that "just" > decode the on-wire protocol and pass it to a plugin module, and reverse > that for the results. That is all they have to do and its quite simple, > the protocol itself is 12 years old. So you wont really see huge amounts > of ongoing change in any of them. > > Theres a whole other category of ICAP server, such as AV vendors. They > get a lot more active turnover on their software, but are all about > custom integration for the filtering activity they do rather than > generic plugin engines. And again most of the code churn is in the > filtering parts not the ICAP bits. > > > > In the squid wiki < > http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/ICAP#ICAP_Servers>, > > I was able to find the following ICAP server implementations: > > - C-ICAP <http://c-icap.sourceforge.net/> > > -- lates release was in October 2014 (which is pretty good) but the > latest > > version is 0.3.5. *How stable is it?* > > - Traffic Spicer <http://spicer.measurement-factory.com/> > > -- Squid's docs point to this page < > http://spicer.measurement-factory.com/> > > but I couldn't even figure out where to download it or find any > > documentation for it. > > - ICAP-Server <http://icap-server.sourceforge.net/> > > -- latest version for it is 1.2.1 but it is dated from October 30, 2002. > > - POESIA <http://www.poesia-filter.org/> > > -- this one points to a German page that doesn't seem to have anything to > > do with ICAP... > > - GreasySpoon <http://greasyspoon.sourceforge.net/> > > -- this one seems to have been discontinued > > > > The most interesting one seems to be C-ICAP but I don't like that it > hasn't > > even reached a 1.0 version... > > > > What do you guys recommend I adopt? > > > > c-icap. > > Though I have to disclaim a slight bias. The c-icap author is one of our > more active Squid developers. > > > You might also look into eCAP. The design intention is that you build an > eCAP module which can plug into either the c-icap engine for access over > ICAP or be loaded by Squid for faster processing directly on the HTTP > traffic flow. > > Amos > _______________________________________________ > squid-users mailing list > squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org > http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users >
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