On Sun, 23 Oct 2005, Reuben Farrelly wrote:
I would very much like to see wccpv2 in as well but unfortunately don't think there is any mature code really there for it yet. It seems to be something that is often asked about and useful in larger installations.
WCCPv1 gets you quite far in terms of HTTP proxying however.. The benefits of WCCPv2 is mainly if you need to intercept additional protocols.
Then Cisco also claims that WCCPv2 is required in order to be able to register with multiple routers, but this is mainly an administrative thing within the cache software and not so dependent on the WCCP protocol version as such and probably comes from the fact that their cache software only supports this when using WCCPv2 (WCCPv2 does make such implementations slightly easier however, but only marginally, and the Squid WCCPv1 implementation only supports a single router..).
To get into 2.6 I'd say there needs to be a fairly stable implementation contributed within the next month or so. This applies to any feature wishing to get into the 2.6 release. Once Squid-2.6 gets into PRE state no new features will be allowed, and the intention is to go into PRE shortly after all the already completed candidates have been merged.
Regards Henrik
