RE: [squid-users] Accessing allowed URLs from MySQL

[Henrik Nordstrom <hno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Did you try the archive link I provided in my previous response below?

As for using PHP I see no reason why writing a PHP console application to 
do the job would not work.

Regards
Henrik


On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Glynn Robinson wrote:

> I've scoured the web for the mysql_acl patch but it doesn't seem to be
> available anywhere. You suggested writing my own MySQL external ACL
> helper. I've never used Perl (the language you suggested using) but I
> was just wondering if it would be possible to do it using PHP? I do have
> experience with PHP and accessing MySQL from within it but I am a
> complete newbie when
> it comes to Squid.
>
> > Sounds like your old Squid included an inofficial patch for
> integration
> > with MySQL.
>
> > Probably the patch by Matthew Naylor linked from the
> > devel.squid-cache.org. Unfortunately his page is not available anymore
> but
> > it is archived by the WayBackMatchine (great tool btw)
> > http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www->
> > users.york.ac.uk/~mfn100/squid_mysql.html
>
> > To my knowledge noone has written an external_acl replacement for this
>
> > yet. If you know a little of programming in any language with mysql
> > support you are welcome to take a stab at this. To give some scale on
> the
> > project writing an mysql external_acl helper in for example perl
> should
> > not be much more than a handful of lines, plus command line parameter
> > parsing, usage instructions etc if desired to make it easy to use.
>
> > Regards
> > Henrik