Isn't requests really just an external acl helper?
On 27/02/2009, at 8:36 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
I'm looking at implementing this as part of a contract for squid-2.
I was going to take a different approach - that is, i'm not going to
implement quota control or management in squid; I'm going to provide
the hooks to squid to allow external controls to handle the "quota".
adrian
2009/2/21 Pieter De Wit <[email protected]>:
Hi Guys,
I would like to offer my time in working on this feature - I have
not done
any squid dev, but since I would like to see this feature in Squid, I
thought I would take it on.
I have briefly contacted Amos off list and we agreed that there is
no "set
in stone" way of doing this. I would like to propose that we then
start
throwing around some ideas and let's see if we can get this into
squid :)
Some ideas that Amos quickly said :
- "Based" on delay pools
- Use of external helpers to track traffic
The way I see this happening is that a Quota is like a pool that
empties
based on 2 classes - bytes and requests. Requests will be for
things like
the number of requests, i.e. a person is only allowed to download 5
exe's
per day or 5 requests of >1meg or something like that (it just
popped into
my head :) )
Bytes is a pretty straight forward one, the user is only allowed x
amount of
bytes per y amount of time.
Anyways - let the ideas fly :)
Cheers,
Pieter
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