Re: What about including virus filter to squid ?

True.

I don't think inline virus scanning within the Squid process is a good
path. Instead the virus scanner should be a separate process, possibly
even on separate machine(s).

The problem is how a external virus scanner is to integrate with Squid.
There needs to be something more than just HTTP for this to work in a
somewhat efficient manner, and it needs to be reasonably standard to
allow for different virus scanners to be used.

IIRC this is one of the areas where the ICAP protocol can be used. There
is a ICAP client implementation to Squid (see devel.squid-cache.org),
and this might allow Squid to integrate with ICAP capable virus scanners
(there seems to be quite a few already).

Perhaps the ICAP client to Squid hasn't seen as much attention as it
should?

Regards
Henrik

fre 2002-11-08 klockan 17.09 skrev Evgeny Kotsuba:
> Hi,
> What about subj ?
> Users periodically ask for this feature.
>
> SY,
> Evgeny Kotsuba
Received on Fri Nov 08 2002 - 11:34:23 MST