Re: Interested in implementing Content Aliasing Avoidance for Squid

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Swaroop Shere wrote:

> We are a group of 4 members in the final year of Engg in IT from Don
> Bosco Institute of Technology, under Mumbai University. We have decided
> to work on implementing 'content aliasing avoidance' as a part of our
> final year project, majorly because of our interest in this field and
> also, we wish to contribute to the open source.

Sounds very similar to the "Duplicate Transfer Detection" and
"Duplicate Storeage Avoidance" projects

   http://devel.squid-cache.org/dtd/
   http://devel.squid-cache.org/dsa/

> We have taken time to understand how squid works, the http protocol, and
> also the concept of 'content aliasing'.

How are you attacking the problem from the HTTP protocol level?

> Honestly, this is our first attempt to work at this level, but with the
> interest and enthusiasm we have in this field, we believe we can
> contribute to some extent. We are trying to read and understand 'Squid
> Programming Guide' and also, squid source code. It is here that we are
> facing problems. Especially the source code seems all greek and latin
> (this is the first time we are reading any source code).

Welcome to the world of Squid ;-)

> We would be grateful to recieve some tips or points of information,
> especially regarding reading source codes.

Where do you want to start?

Regards
Henrik
Received on Mon Sep 27 2004 - 07:52:01 MDT