On Mon, 9 Feb 2004, Thomas Lamy wrote:As of current CVS, freshclam can't speak HTTP/1.1, and doesn't issue HEAD requests AFAIK. Therefore wget -N is cheaper that freshclam (server-performance-wise). And you can trigger that wget whenever a new mail in clamav-database arrives (and stop trying to wget if you actually received that update).
Why not use a local mirror (a simple shellscript using wget -N should be sufficient) and make all the local freshclams update from there every ten minutes? Please, don't try such update intervals with the official mirrors....
That would amount to the same thing: that local mirror will lag for an hour or so, as it can't wget from the official mirrors too frequently.
I was talking about the redesign of clamav's internal protocol (where you can tell clamd things like "PING", "SCAN", "CONTSCAN", "RELOAD" etc).
But I think it's a nice idea, perhaps that may have a go once clamd's new network protocol is able to do what the old one already does.
Please pardon my ignorance -- what network protocol and which feature of it are you referring to here?
The plan is to change to some "open" protocol rather than re-inventing the wheel. From what I read in the past it seems the new protocol was delayed by (more important) new features like OLE2/VBA scanning, bug squashing and the development of a new thread manager.
But please note that I wrote all these informations from memory and from looking at the sources. And sometimes my memory just plays dirty tricks on me ;-)
You're welcome.
Thanks.
Thomas
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