[Slackbuilds-users] SquidGuard 1.4 vs. Squid 3.4 : patch for vanilla sources needed

[Niki Kovacs]

Le 02/05/2015 08:29, Niki Kovacs a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm using a combination of Squid and SquidGuard on my servers for web
> filtering, which is the "industrial grade" solution usable in schools
> and companies.
>
> Up until recently, the combination worked well with Squid 3.3 and
> SquidGuard 1.4. Unfortunately, the upgrade to Squid 3.4 broke something,
> and SquidGuard doesn't work anymore.
>
> I've googled a bit, and found out that SquidGuard 1.4 has to be patched
> in order to work with Squid >= 3.4.
>
> Now I just spent some time hunting down that mysterious patch, but I
> failed, because all the patches are either distribution-specific
> (FreeBSD, Arch, etc.) and they don't work with vanilla sources, or the
> link to the original patch throws back a 404 error.
>
> My guess is the SquidGuard application is quite badly maintained,
> judging from their homepage displaying a forest of patches and
> announcing a perpetual 1.5beta version for the last couple of years.
>
> If anybody has an idea, that would be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Niki

Some additional information. Here's the relevant bit from the SquidGuard 
mailing list. The URL to the included patch does not work.

On Thursday, 13. March 2014 21:57:39 Ming Hou wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I have upgraded my squid proxy from 3.1.23 to 3.4.4 with squidGuard 1.4.
 >
 > For some reasons, the redirection from the result of squidGuard 
throws out
 > the 404 error. However, I switch back 3.1.23 and the issue goes away.
 >
 > Any suggestion?

please see this "bug" report:
http://bugs.squid-cache.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3978

-> You need to patch squidguard to work with newer squid versions.



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