Re: Porting of usage of rep_mime type acls in delay_access rules from Squid2-HEAD to Squid3

On 10/27/2010 10:40 AM, Alex Crow wrote:
> Hello devs,
>
> I sent the below to the list a while ago and did not get a response.
>
> It it planned to:
>
> a) Allow rep_mime_type acls in delay_ rules in 2.8 or later 2.x releases?
>
> and/or
>
> b) Implement this feature in 3.x releases?

Hello Alex,

     I am not aware of any plans to do (a) or (b), but that does not
mean that there are no such plans or that the feature is not useful.

Alex.

> ****
>
> Hello squid developers.
>
> I am very interested that this feature (that having read through the
> HEAD to release diffs appears to be in general allowing delay_access to
> wait until replies have been processed) gets ported to Squid 3.x. It's
> quite a killer feature in a corporate environment to stop people hogging
> legitimate uses of bandwidth to look at various sports events and
> amusements without explicitly having to block all such sites (or
> whitelist which is equally tough).
>
> I have deployed a server running the HEAD version of Squid 2 with a rule
> like this:
>
> delay_client_reply_access 2 allow streaming_media !fastweb
> !important_groups
>
> where streaming_media is a rep_mime_type acl.
>
> And it works exactly as expected.
>
> I have very little coding experience, especially in C++, so if others
> are able to help it would be most gratefully accepted.
>
> Please reply off-list as I have read the rules and will only join the
> list if this is felt valid.
>
> Best regards
>
> Alex
>
Received on Wed Oct 27 2010 - 21:31:22 MDT