Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-08-21 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Eliezer, On Sunday 18 June 2017 02:12 AM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: I believe that you should aim for the more standard hardware devices which squid can be built on-top such as: - x86 - x86_64 - arm64 - arm5 - arm8 In order to improve response time on capable hardware, we have just pushed

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-17 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
Mobile: +972-5-28704261 Email: elie...@ngtech.co.il -Original Message- From: squid-users [mailto:squid-users-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org] On Behalf Of Nishant Sharma Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 21:30 To: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org Subject: Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Cent

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-17 Thread Nishant Sharma
On 17 June 2017 11:17:38 PM IST, Amos Jeffries wrote: >That would mean making Squid aware of the internal workings of the >helper. Namely that it uses connections to a specific server, port and >which transport. One of the major points of flexibility with helpers is > >that this kind of thing

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-17 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 17/06/17 21:59, Nishant Sharma wrote: May be, the helper architecture could be changed such that a parent process creates a pool of network connections that children use. Thus, limiting the number of sockets being used at any moment. And squid controls the number of those parent processes.

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-17 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Eliezer, On Saturday 17 June 2017 12:37 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: I wanted to be sure I am not day-dreaming but from the code it seems that every request is given a single TCP connection. Am I right? If so there is much to improve. You can use the same tcp connection for more then a singl

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-17 Thread Amos Jeffries
On 17/06/17 19:07, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: I wanted to be sure I am not day-dreaming but from the code it seems that every request is given a single TCP connection. Am I right? If so there is much to improve. You are seeing correct. That is one of the things I brought up and is being worked o

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-17 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org Subject: RE: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid Hi Eliezer, On 14 June 2017 11:07:16 PM IST, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: >I want to offer you a more advanced helper that supports actual >concurrency compared to the c

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-16 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Eliezer, On 14 June 2017 11:07:16 PM IST, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: >I want to offer you a more advanced helper that supports actual >concurrency compared to the current perl helper on github, >which understands the protocol but do not use threads or any other >method of concurrency. > >Let

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-14 Thread Eliezer Croitoru
users-boun...@lists.squid-cache.org] On Behalf Of Nishant Sharma Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2017 1:37 PM To: squid-users@lists.squid-cache.org Subject: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid Hi, We are excited to invite early users to test drive Charcoal (http://charco

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-14 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi Benjamin, On Wednesday 14 June 2017 08:22 PM, Benjamin E. Nichols wrote: This sounds great, and would you mind specifying the source of the blacklist data at the core of your services? In other words, what I dare ask you is this, and im sure others might want to know, are you using the bla

Re: [squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-14 Thread Benjamin E. Nichols
This sounds great, and would you mind specifying the source of the blacklist data at the core of your services? In other words, what I dare ask you is this, and im sure others might want to know, are you using the blacklists from shalla, UT1, or urlblacklist? Or have you developed your own dom

[squid-users] Introducing Charcoal - Centralised URL Filter for squid

2017-06-14 Thread Nishant Sharma
Hi, We are excited to invite early users to test drive Charcoal (http://charcoal.io) - a Squid URL Rewriter for distributed proxies. Charcoal is designed to help administrators manage access rules for the proxies at just one place with a GUI, instead of editing configuration of individual pr