In article <Pine.LNX.3.95dg3.970814164036.31732K-100000@twinlark.arctic.org> you wrote:
> You can pass URLs to an external program... say a perl program. It forks
> a configurable number of those and they eat URLs off a pipe, and write the
> rewritten URL back to the server. It's more powerful than mod_rewrite ...
> and also something we can't do efficiently because of our process model.
More powerful than mod_rewrite? Why? You can do the same with mod_rewrite's
RewriteMap _programs_? Same approach as in Squid, I think. Or did I miss
something?
> > > When I last evaluated Squid for use as an accelerator I had a few issues
> > > with it:
> > >
> > > - no vhost support
> > > - logging is different than apache (ad sites want all the logs), would
> > > require extra effort to generate as comprehensive logs as my client had
> > > - URL remapping wasn't as powerful
> > > - no persistent connections
> >
> > Does squid have proxypass/mod_rewrite functionality now, then?
Ralf S. Engelschall
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