F-Prot 6 (and lack of speed thereof)

[Julian Field]

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I have just released 4.68.1 which includes support for the scanner 
"f-protd-6" which uses the fpscand daemon provided with F-Prot 6. Very 
much faster than the scanner "f-prot-6" which uses the command-line 
scanner provided with F-Prot 6.

Rick Cooper wrote:
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>  > Subject: Re: F-Prot 6 (and lack of speed thereof)
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>  > > Not much, no. The f-protd expects http GET like syntax, it 
>  > returns xml (even
>  > > the error codes) so I would think there will be a bit more 
>  > to the parseing,
>  > > as well as building the command. The documentation 
>  > reference properl url
>  > > encoded, and it requires the ?/& separators between 
>  > arguments as well (of
>  > > course). And I really don't like the sound of this part:
>  > >
>  > > "The Daemon Scanner is designed to automatically update 
>  > itself by executing
>  > > itself when a new version is in place. The newly executed 
>  > copy is will bind
>  > > to the next available port in it's range (by default 
>  > 10200-10204) since the
>  > > outdated process stays alive for about 5 - 10 seconds. 
>  > This is done to
>  > > guarantee that there is always at least one daemon 
>  > available at any given
>  > > time. Clients are expected to cycle through the port range 
>  > to find a live
>  > > Daemon Scanner when the one they were previously using dies."
>  > >   
>  > Where did you find that bit? I haven't seen that in my 
>  > documentation. 
>  > And it certainly doesn't talk anything like XML.
>  > 
>  > I have some working code that assumes the daemon is at 10200.
>  > 
>  > I have been reading 'man fpscand'.
>  > 
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> I was just reading :
> http://www.f-prot.com/support/unix/unix_manpages/f-protd.8.html
>
> And BTW I came across this :
> http://search.cpan.org/~avar/FProt-Client-0.09/Client.pm
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> Perhaps the xml has to do with the version? The Fprot::Client package
> doesn't list a version requirement so who knows if it works with the latest
> and greatest or not.
>
> Rick
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Jules

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