[10624] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
HTTP 1.1 Proxy/Caching servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anselm Baird_Smith)
Thu Feb 13 03:25:47 1997
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 09:09:38 +0100 (MET)
From: Anselm Baird_Smith <abaird@www43.inria.fr>
To: sam@wsds.com
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <330229EB.A00@wsds.com>
Reply-To: Anselm Baird-Smith <abaird@w3.org>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
Sam Gendler writes:
> I am doing some research for a school project on caching proxy servers.
> I am wondering if anybody has done an implementation with with the HTTP
> 1.1 compliant libwww. If so, would they be willing to let me have a
> look at the source code. I am finding the library to be very complex,
> and the example applications are not very well documented and
> exceedingly hard to follow, even in a source level debugger. Please let
> me know. I would apreciate personal responses as well as any responses
> made to the list, just so I don't miss anything. Thank you.
You may want to check Jigsaw 1.0alpha5, to be released lattter today,
which implements (also) a full 1.1 compliant HTTP/1.1 caching
proxy. The client side of that proxy can even be used with HotJava for
those of you who want to be proud to use the first graphical HTTP/1.1
client ;-)
Anselm.
