[Devil-linux-develop] Any interest in adding Pound?

[Martin G. <sou...@gl...>]

Hey All,

Is there any interest in adding Pound ( http://www.apsis.ch/pound/) to DL?

I've already created the scripts and build for myself, just haven't moved i=
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into a chroot yet.

I'm planning on using it as a front end for MS Exchange Outlook Web Access.

=46rom the website...

POUND - REVERSE-PROXY AND LOAD-BALANCER


 The Pound program is a reverse proxy, load balancer and HTTPS front-end fo=
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Web server(s). Pound was developed to enable distributing the load among=20
several Web-servers and to allow for a convenient SSL wrapper for those Web=
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servers that do not offer it natively. Pound is distributed under the GPL -=
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no warranty, it's free to use, copy and give away.


WHAT POUND IS:

 a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more=20
back-end servers.
 a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers=
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among several back-end servers, while keeping session information.
 an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and=
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pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end servers.
 an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and=20
accept only well-formed ones.
 a fail over-server: should a back-end server fail, Pound will take note of=
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the fact and stop passing requests to it until it recovers.
 a request redirector: requests may be distributed among servers according =
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the requested URL.

Pound is a very small program, easily audited for security problems. It can=
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run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the=20
hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if=20
required) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine.

Martin