Re: [Rabbit-proxy-development] Problems when filtering sites

[Rick L. <ri...@le...>]

On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 15:04 -0700,
rab...@li... wrote:

> Rabbit will not filter pages that are already compressed. This is 
> probably your problem, but since you do not give any example site it is
> hard to say.

> Adding unpacking+filtering+repacking to FilterHandler is easy, but
> it is not part of rabbit, at least not yet.

Is it not possible for Rabbit to tell the web server that it cannot
accept compressed html?  Then Rabbit just does filtering+repacking.
That might be faster, if Rabbit has a fast connection and it is cacheing
the page.  Robo, please correct me.

> I guess I have to figure out what direction I want rabbit to go,
> full filtering proxy or web accellerator proxy. For the first then I
> really ought to add that unpack+filtering to FilterHandler.
> If I take number 2 instead I am not sure that I want such features
> since they would go directly against rabbits goal (introducing extra
> latency is not making surfing faster).

It is a big world in the internet, and I am all in favour of filtering
out the 'bad' bits.  Let's not discuss which bits are bad right now, but
those of us who are parents will know what I mean.  Maybe we should run
Dansguardian upstream of Rabbit.  But it might be simpler to do the
filtering in Rabbit.
cheers -- Rick