Re: external_acl question

On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 05:45, WA Support wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >

> > External helpers though, can be somewhat looser on memory as they have
> > only their own resources to worry about, and can block and use
> > synchronous IO code.
>
> After looking at the FAQ and examples for external_acls, I don't believe
> this feature will work for what I need. Correct me if I am wrong, but
> it doesn't look like I can define an external_acl in squid.conf and then
> 'call' that external_acl from redirect.cc. Is this correct? If so, I
> am back to linking in a subset of the mysql libraries and headers.

Yes and No. You call it by using it in the redirector_access access
statement. Then squid checks the results for you. This call is done
before redirect.cc is ever hit.

Cheers,
Rob

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