An ICAP server implementation in C++

Copyright (C) 2012-2015 Uditha Atukorala.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

The main goal of this project is to create an ICAP server (RFC 3507) implementation in C++ to use the power of object oriented programming.

Starting from scratch, the server is developed with a modular architecture in mind. The server core (written in C++) will handle the client requests, manage workers (child processes) etc. and will provide basic handlers to serve ICAP requests.

To extend this core functionality the idea is to have pluggable modules (like apache server modules). These modules will provide features like content filtering, anti-virus scanning etc. and to make it easier to write (and faster to implement) such modules there is hope to exploit python programming language.

• Many thanks to Kenneth Oksanen for his support in finding and fixing bugs

You can download the source distributions from https://github.com/uditha-atukorala/bitz-server/releases.

• psocksxx >= 0.0.6
• libconfig++ >= 1.4
• python 2.7 (for modpy module)

Please report all bugs and feature requests under issues.

If you are using the github source then first you need to initialise autotools.

$ libtoolize (glibtoolize in OS X)
$ aclocal
$ autoheader
$ autoconf
$ automake --add-missing

After that you can use the usual ./configure && make

This is the (long awaited) python interface module. It provides a template for any other python interface module implementations either as C++ module template or as a C++ interface for python modules.

Use the following to create the binaries with debug symbols

$ ./configure CXXFLAGS="-g -O0"

The default config file location is /etc/bitz/bitz-server.conf but this can changed using the --with-config option when you run configure.

e.g.

$ ./configure --with-config=/[path to source code]/conf/bitz-server.conf

$ valgrind --leak-check=full --read-var-info=yes --trace-children=yes --suppressions=test/valgrind.supp --log-file=valgrind.log ./src/bitz-server --debug