[squid-users] doubt with external ACL

Hello all,

(I'm quite new to Squid, so excuse me for some inexperience....)

I have a doubt about external ACLs. This is my setup and it works (the
linechange and the '\' character are not present in the squid.conf):

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external_acl_type xACLtypBL %SRCPORT %SRC \
   %DST /etc/squid/redirectors/x_acl_BL_logger.pl /etc/aaa bbb ccc

acl xACL_BL external xACLtypBL xACL_01
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My question: if I remove the xALC_01 argument (in the acl line) this
external ACL simply does not work (ACL program does not detect anything
on STDIN !!!); if I include the xACL_01 portion it works as expected.

In my application I really do not need to pass any arguments to the
externa ACL, but if I dont do it it, won't work...

So: what is it for ? and why doesn't it work without it?

thx
joao

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see bellow my ACL script (Perl)...
... it is a simple logger (always prints "OK")
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#!/usr/bin/perl -wl
use strict;
$|=1;
use IO::Handle qw(autoflush);
while (<STDIN>) {
   my $openok=0;
   chomp;
   if(open(LOG,'>>',"/var/log/squid/BL.log")){
       $openok=1;autoflush LOG;print LOG "|| $_ ||\n";
   };
} continue {
   print "OK";
}
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Received on Mon Jan 29 2007 - 10:06:10 MST