Mailing List Archive: [clamav-users] Let's try an Artifactory thread again

Artifactory has, as part of its functionality, the ability to cache
remote (internet) data. Hey, let's use that to reduce the traffic to
database.clamav.net!

Artifactory is not technically what you'd consider an "HTTP caching
proxy" because each thing requiring caching has its own URL. That is, an
internal cache of recently requested CentOS RPMs might live at
https://our-artifactory.company.com/artifactory/centos-remote and Ubuntu
.deb packages might live at
https://our-artifactory.company.com/artifactory/ubuntu-remote and a set
of generic files might get cached at
https://our-artifactory.company.com/artifactory/some-internet-site-remote

Has anyone successfully configured freshclam to reference an
company-internal Artifactory repository?

Re: https://www.clamav.net/documents/private-local-mirrors,
HTTPProxyServer won't work for the Artifactory goal. Artifactory is not
a real HTTP proxy server in the way meant.

What type of value does "PrivateMirror" take? The documentation is not
clear and the default just shows an example of a hostname. Can it be a
full URL?

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Hi there,

On Thu, 18 Mar 2021, Jeff Blaine via clamav-users wrote:

> Has anyone successfully configured freshclam to reference an
> company-internal Artifactory repository?

I have seen no claim to such success. Should you not be talking to the
provider of Artifactory? They do seem to claim that it can't fail...

> What type of value does "PrivateMirror" take? The documentation is not
> clear and the default just shows an example of a hostname. Can it be a
> full URL?

I don't think this will help you. You need to set up your own private
mirror first. If you set this option, I believe that it will change
the way that the files are downloaded to something more like what the
ClamAV people consider to be an abusive client - so you should only
set it after you have set up your own private mirror, and then only
download the files to the systems which run ClamAV from that mirror.

Having said that I've never used a private mirror so YMMV.

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73,
Ged.

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