On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, David Hubner wrote:
I heard there is a new redirector interface apart from the old process of,
Url IP/FQDN Username Method
Could anyone tell me what it is and point me to any documention. I could not find any on www.squid-cache.org.
Squid-3 helper interface supports what is by the developers referred to as "overlapping requests" where multiple requests is queued to the redirector. The difference is an added request number infront of the request
requestnumnber Url IP/FQDN Username Method
and the response needs to look like
requestnumber url
The helper may reorder the replies as it pleases. The intention of this interface is to allow for a multithreaded lookup engine and similar, reducing the number of processes required by allowing one process to handle many concurrent requests.
This is also available in Basic and Digest authenticators, and the intention is to extend this to support NTLM authenticators as well.
Regards Henrik
