[svlug] junkbuster advice/comments

[Walter Reed]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:34:37AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, Walter Reed wrote:
> 
> > JB is http 1.0 only, which kinda sucks.
> >
> > Since you are already running squid, try adzap (search google for
> > adzap squid)
> 
> I found this Aussie page, I think that's the one you met. after some
> very light reading of the page It looks like the adzap is an external
> perl script being run for each and every object that is passed through
> squid, which means a few dozen invokes of perl processes a second. does
> that make any sense whatsoever? and the guy complains that JB runs as a
> seperate process and therefore too slow. Either this guy doesn't realize
> the perlscript needs a fork for each web object or I am missing some big
> piece of the puzzle.

Read further. When squid starts, it starts multiple (configurable number)
copies of the adzap script. You have no fork penalty since it's already
running.  It's kinda like how apache preforks children.
 
> in any case, adzap won't do cookies, and lots of other tricks junkbuster
> does. the one thing that webpage sugests and I fee like trying is
> putting squid in front of JB and not the other way around.

Blocking cookies is best done at the browser (IMHO) where you have fine grained
control over them and can enable / disable at will. Galeon does this well. 

JB was kind of flakey for me which is why I dumped it in favor of adzap. Yeah,
it's not a 100% replacement, but it does what I need it to do.