Re: [squid-users] Squid::Guard perl module announce

Many thanks for this perl module.

I hope there are new plugins developped around your classes because it
seems that squidGuard is no longer maintain since the last version is a
beta freeze from one year.

DansGuardian is no longer maintain too.

So currently there is a lake of Squid plugins that helps to create a
good web fitering strategy

About your classes
$sg->checkingroup($user, $group)
$sg->checkinwbgroup($user, $group)

what about offer DB queries methods like Mysql or LDAP ?

On 10/10/2010 22:38, Squid at Iotti dot Biz wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I wrote a perl module for creating redirectors for Squid. As the name
> implies, it was inspired by squidGuard. It aims to be more flexible and to
> some extent even simpler to use.
> I was happy with squidGuard and used it for years. But sometimes I needed
> some extra features like the ability to differentiate between users
> belonging to different groups, or to take decisions based on some external
> program output, etc. squidGuard did not support this directly, so I had to
> choose between complicated configurations with tricks to circumvent these
> limitations, or writing some dedicated redirector. Soon Squid::Guard was
> born.
> The module has built-in support for some common tasks performed in Squid
> redirectors, including:
> - lookup of domain or url in .db files created from text list files, like
> squidGuard does. Expression files are also supported.
> - lookup of user in UNIX or winbind (SaMBa, Windows) groups
>
> I consider the module beta, and certain features were just briefly tested at
> the moment. But I use it in some production environments without problems.
> Maybe others can be interested in it. It can be found on CPAN, the link to
> the current version is http://search.cpan.org/~lux/Squid-Guard-0.11/ .
>
Received on Sun Oct 10 2010 - 21:19:49 MDT