On 01/12/10 08:39, Rémy Sanchez wrote:
Hi,
I run Squid on a dorm network, to decrease content loading time with
cache. Currently, we're upgrading Squid to 3.1, because we are moving to
IPv6. But, since our bandwidth is quite limited, we have great interest
in caching videos from Youtube/Dailomtion/Youporn/pick one. However,
this requires to use storeurl, which has not been ported to Squid 3.1,
and there is no trace of it in 3.2 either.
I see in the release notes that "If you need something to do then
porting one of these from Squid-2 to Squid-3 is most welcome.", so here
I am :)
To introduce myself a little bit further, I'm a (student) network
engineer, and I have been hacking around for a few years. I've already
run small/mid-sized projects on my own, like Karibou [1], but never
really contributed code to something as big as Squid (there's a first
time to everything :)). My programming experience is mostly with
scripting languages (Python, PHP) or GUI development with C++/Qt, thus I
did never "really" code in C : most of the things I've done are typical
school projects, and reading source code to help me understanding the
documentation.
So, for now I'll read a bit about squid internals and coding guidelines
waiting for any question/comment. Have a good day/evening/night/whatever :)
Greetings Rémy,
Thank you for volunteering.
I'm happy to mentor you through the code for this if you need any
assistance. Here are a few links to help you with your code explorations.
What documentation we have for 3.x can be found at:
http://squid.treenet.co.nz/Doc/Code/
We have a portage page to track the patches in 2.x. It's not very up to
date right now.
http://master.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/2.7/changesets/port.html
The main storage URL patches begin with patch #11738 (search for
"support rewriting the URL used for store"). There are quite a few of
the bug fix patches following it. Plus one more recent bug fix at:
http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/v2/HEAD/changesets/12695.patch
Initial major task is porting the patch so that it will build and run in
Squid-3. Style changes to make it fit fully with 3.x need to be done
separately after the port work is complete. Doing them early makes the
extra bug fix ports harder.
I hope this helps, and am looking forward to the results.
Amos
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Please be using
Current Stable Squid 2.7.STABLE9 or 3.1.9
Beta testers wanted for 3.2.0.3
