Re: Custom log format

Sure. Send in the diff to squid-dev@squid-cache.org, and we will try to
archive it at a suitable place such as the web page discussed...

MD5 is included in Squid. Faster implementations exists and is used if
found.. (OpenSSL library).

Any suggestion on format codes?

Regards
Henrik

Jeffrey Mogul wrote:
>
> > 2) a digest (MD5, SHA1, or similar) of message bodies
> > (both request and reply bodies)
>
> Not planned unless someone volonteers in implementing the sums..
>
> Having done this once (in a very old version of Squid, V1.1.20), I can
> attest that it does not take too much code, but it takes some
> care to make sure that you have implemented it correctly. The
> problem is that Squid doesn't always buffer the entire response
> in memory in the process of forwarding it (especially for non-cachable
> responses) and so you need to construct the MD5 incrementally.
> It's especially tricky to do the right thing if the client or
> server aborts the request/response while in progress.
>
> However, perhaps it would be a good idea to reserve a format
> code for this function, even if you don't plan to implement
> it right away. That might inspire someone else to do the work.
>
> I'd be happy to supply diffs from my 1.1.20 version, if that
> would help anyone. The changes were in ftp.c, http.c, store.c,
> and store.h, plus I brought in the MD5 code that RSA released
> a decade ago -- I'm sure a faster implementation exists.
>
> -Jeff
Received on Mon Nov 19 2001 - 19:25:04 MST