Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] More Documentations Please

[Robert O. <d9...@na...>]

Hello!

> Hi. I had been tinkering with Rabbit for weeks and still havent
> figured out on how the heck will I be able to access the web config
> (the http:(proxy=port) thing.

use the full qualified name and the port of the system running rabbit
should work. Like for me, when I run RabbIT I mostly run it on my
machine named grunt and run it from a computer in the khelekore.org
domain. I access it like this:

In the browser(mozilla for me) I enable proxy surfing
Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Proxies
[x] manual proxy configuration
	HTTP Proxy: grunt.khelekore.org               Port: 9666


After this I fill in the url to go to:
http://grunt.khelekore.org:9666/

I get a password prompt where I enter the user name and the password.

> Now either with proxy nor without proxy still my browser or any
> workstation cannot access the webconfig.

What response do you get?

Please note that there is a feature that RabbIT only accept the
"first" name it can find for the host. So normally
"http://localhost:9666/" will not work, nor will "http://grunt:9666/"

> Rabbit.conf the imagemagick path ex.convert=c:/Imagemagick/convert
> When I changed the line to include the extension
> ex.convert=c:/Imagemagick/convert.exe , then the error stopped.

Ok. I dont run windows, but that does not sound very strange.
The dos window normally appends .bat, .com or .exe does it not?

> But  I could not see any changes in the image quality or anything.
Thats odd. Did you get cache hits for thoose images or real requests?

You could also check the access_log to see how RabbIT sees it, you
will get lines like:
127.0.0.1 - - 25/Jan/2003:19:25:12 GMT "GET
http://images.slashdot.org/topics/topicinternet.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 709
imageratio:2039/709=0.34771946

the imageratio is the interesting thing in this case, this images
gets quite much smaller (only 34% is sent).

>  Is the compression method of Rabbit OK? Cached objects seems to
> appear as garbaged when displayed. Im sure this is not a browser
> related problem .

Seems to work for me. What browser do you use? I use mozilla and just
tested slashdot: go there, shift-reload the page to make sure RabbIT
has all parts, quit mozilla, restart mozilla, clear mozilla cache, go
to slashdot, 13 cache hits, page looks like it should.
So It should work and seems to work.

> Lastly, Can you provide a more detailed manual or similar regarding
> Rabbit.

Maybee, but it will probably take time. I dont have much time to
develop it anymore and Im also quite bad at documentation (API-docs
is ok, but usage-guide is bad..).

> We could surely need one as to figure it out. We are not
> java programmers that can just navigate easily.By the way have
> anyone tested Rabbit and run it without a glitch? Thanks.

I run it without much problems. But it has a few bugs for sure, one
of the more interesting ones have been fixed in the developer release
just recently (will _very_ rarely corrupt POST requests).

/robo