Re: Enabling ICAP by default

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:29 +0200, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On tor, 2007-09-06 at 10:00 -0600, Alex Rousskov wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-08-27 at 07:37 -0600, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> > > hno 2007/08/27 07:37:02 MDT
> > > Log:
> > > Enable HTCP and SNMP support by default in the binary, but default off in squid.conf
> >
> > Should we enable ICAP in the binary by default as well? It is probably
> > nearly as widely used as HTCP?
>
> Maybe. I'll leave that to you to judge. Don't have a clear opinion
> either way. But why not?

I do not have a strong opinion either. Does anybody think that it is a
bad idea to enable ICAP support by default?

> HTCP and SNMP is very non-intrusive, just enabling code which is never
> used unless configured in squid.conf, with no significant change in
> other code.

This _should_ be true for ICAP as well. If it is not, perhaps it would
be good to expose those bugs now?

Thanks,

Alex.
Received on Thu Sep 06 2007 - 13:32:44 MDT