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Muffin installed in the outland locker
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Z. Maze)
Thu Oct 28 21:32:37 1999
To: software-announce@MIT.EDU, bug-outland@MIT.EDU
From: "David Z. Maze" <dmaze@MIT.EDU>
Date: 28 Oct 1999 21:31:15 -0400
Muffin, a filtering HTTP proxy, has been installed in the outland
locker for sgi_65, sun4x_56, i386_nbsd1, and i386_linux3. Muffin is
distributed under the GPL; for more information, see
http://muffin.doit.org/.
To run:
add outland; muffin &
Key features, from the README:
* Written entirely in Java. Requires JDK 1.1
Runs on Unix, Windows 95/NT, and MacOS.
* Freely available under the GNU General Public License.
* Support for HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and SSL (https).
* Graphical user interface and command-line interface.
* Remote admin interface using HTML forms.
* Includes several filters which can remove cookies, kill GIF animations,
remove advertisements, add/remove/modify arbitrary HTML tags (like blink),
remove Java applets and Javascript, user-agent spoofing, rewrite URLs, and
much more.
* View all HTTP headers to aid in CGI development and debugging.
* Users can write their own filters in Java using the provided filter
interfaces.
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