in reply to ICAP server implementation in Perl

G'day Josef,

I noticed this has been sitting here for over 15 hours without a response. I'm not familiar with ICAP. A CPAN search for "ICAP" only found Net::xAP. That module is 14 years old and, according to its documentation:

"WARNING: This code is in alpha release. Expect the interface to change from release to release."

That doesn't look too promising, but you'd probably be a better judge of that.

-- Ken

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Re^2: ICAP server implementation in Perl (HTTP::Request .. HTTP::Proxy)
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 09, 2013 at 09:04 UTC

    Looks like HTTP::Proxy and/or Plack could be leveraged for icap

    If HTTP::Response/HTTP::Request can parse these ical req/res then so can Proxy and Plack... probably even Mojolicious 

    #!/usr/bin/perl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use HTTP::Response;
use HTTP::Request;
use Data::Dump qw/ dd pp /;
my $req_raw = q{REQMOD icap://icap-server.net/server?arg=87 ICAP/1.0
Host: icap-server.net
Encapsulated: req-hdr=0, null-body=170

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.origin-server.com
Accept: text/html, text/plain
Accept-Encoding: compress
Cookie: ff39fk3jur@4ii0e02i
If-None-Match: "xyzzy", "r2d2xxxx"
};
my $res_raw = q{ICAP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000  09:55:21 GMT
Server: ICAP-Server-Software/1.0
Connection: close
ISTag: "W3E4R7U9-L2E4-2"
Encapsulated: req-hdr=0, null-body=231

GET /modified-path HTTP/1.1
Host: www.origin-server.com
Via: 1.0 icap-server.net (ICAP Example ReqMod Service 1.1)
Accept: text/html, text/plain, image/gif
Accept-Encoding: gzip, compress
If-None-Match: "xyzzy", "r2d2xxxx"
};

my $req = HTTP::Request->parse($req_raw);
my $res = HTTP::Response->parse($res_raw);
dd( $res, $req );
dd( "req_raw eq req->as_string " => int( $req_raw eq $req->as_string )
+ );
dd( "res_raw eq res->as_string " => int( $res_raw eq $res->as_string )
+ );
print "-" x 33, "\n", $req->dump;
print "-" x 33, "\n", $res->dump;
dd( $req_raw, $req->as_string );
dd( $res_raw, $res->as_string );

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      Thanks for response. I'll think about a solution.

      Have a nice day, Josef
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Re^2: ICAP server implementation in Perl
by josef (Acolyte) on Oct 24, 2013 at 15:24 UTC
    Hi Ken,

    Net::xAPP module provide an interface to Internet Calendar Access Protocol. The Squid proxy contain a interface to the ICAP (Internet Content Adaption Protocol ) server. The only known by open source ICAP servers are in C written, except a very old implementation in python.
    The ICAP server use external modules for content scanning or virus check. I can't write these modules in C, and Perl will be perhaps to slow. My intention was to write itself a ICAP server in Perl to simplify the application to eliminate some overhead between ICAP server and ICAP modules.

    I'll think about a solution.

    Thanks and best regards, Josef
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