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Linux-Announce Digest #367
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Linux-Announce Digest #367, Volume #4 Sun, 30 Mar 2003 09:13:04 EST
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Announcement- jigg R1 - Look Ahead Mezzianne with Transfer Encoding ("Jason Nunn")
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From: "Jason Nunn" <jsno@arafura.net.au>
Subject: Announcement- jigg R1 - Look Ahead Mezzianne with Transfer Encoding
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 22:36:49 CST
Announcement-
jigg - Look Ahead Mezzianne with Transfer Encoding
Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Jason Nunn <jsno@arafura.net.au>
Arafura Connect, Darwin, NT, Australia
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jigg is a concept that implements nice features that squid should
implement but doesn't.... and perhaps never will.
jigg runs on the same machine a web cache does (squid). Users configure
their web browsers to point to jigg.
/-------------\ /------------------\
web browser <-----------------> jigg <---> squid
\-------------/ \------------------/
users machine web cache server
jigg will compress HTTP responses where it can, and when it sees a
TEXT/HTML response, it will look for any IMG SRC links and tell the web
cache to go get them (this is called "looking ahead")... so that by the
time the client browser requests those links, the web cache will already
have them. It will request the most occurring links first.
My boss asked me to code a C program from a perl concept (zipproxy.pl -
by Randal L. Schwartz). My job was to implement "Transfer encoding"
plus the additional feature of "look aheads"-- to precache links ahead
of the client requesting them. The idea is to speed dialup users web
request/responses.
jigg is an experimental concept (but hopefully a useful working
utility). I've developed jigg to the point now where I can say, "yeah
the concept works" and go to my boss and give him my result.
Arafura Connect may not be round of much longer, so for now, I'm just
going to bzip it up and make it available on my homepage (for however
long that remains). I encourage anyone with web cache server to grab it
and have a look at it. Tell me what you think and if it's worth
pursuing.
If Arafura Connect is still around, I'll perhaps develop it further,...
if not, then I guess it's on to other wonders ;).
Available at-
jigg page: http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au/proj_ac/jigg.html
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Jason Nunn- Electronics Technician, Systems Programmer, Network Specialist
Arafura Connect & Arafura Internet Services - 1300 137 363
Email: jsno@arafura.net.au, Phone: 1300 137 363, Fax: 08 89412278
Personal: http://jsno.arafuraconnect.com.au
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