[Rabbit-proxy-users] Re: [Rabbit-proxy-development] Caching for offline browsing

[Samat J. <li...@sa...>]

The way I believe Rabbit is meant to be used is in _front_ of a dialup
connection, not behind it. That is, Rabbit would run on some fast server
somewhere, on a fast connection, at your ISP or a colocated server
(which is what I do).

Rabbit does its magic on this remote server, which then gets sent over
your dialup link, hopefully loading much faster in the process.

So, given that... I don't see how offline caching is useful? I think you
want to look at something which would be run locally, like Squid.

Samat

Michael Vorburger wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was looking around for a proxy server implemented in Java, as basis
> for an experimental project. RabbIT seems to be the most actively
> developed, as far as I could find at least -- so first of all,
> congratulations on a great project! How are you all using it? As a
> "classic" proxy, like Squid etc.? I am interested in use it for
> building a proxy server that would run locally on workstations, mostly
> laptops that are frequently offline (network disconnected).
>
> How could we get RabbIT to cache all visited pages for this purpose,
> even if the server (or upstream proxy) say they can/should not?? 
> Based on that base functionality (which, to be honest, I was hoping to
> find, not implement), I am thinking about some extensions, such as
> "queuing" requests for not-yet-cached pages requested during offline
> operation, then "batch-prefetching" when online, and some more ideas
> in that direction... interested?
>
> BTW: The classic http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/ has such
> offline functionality, but I was hoping to find something in Java to
> extend it more quickly for a POC... At
> http://www.proxy-offline-browser.com/ there is something like that
> too, but commercial, without sources. The
> http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/wbi/ could probably also be used as
> basis for stuff like this, but I haven't looked more closely yet
> mostly because of the license. Maybe somebody here has seen other
> things in this direction?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
> PS: Some quick feedback on the built-in GUI that may be of interest: I
> at first kept trying all sorts of things with http://localhost:9666/
> until I realized that it had to be http://MYMACHINENAME:9666 - maybe
> the doc could state this more clearly, or even better, instead of the
> error message that currently shows up when accessing as localhost it
> could say (or even just redirect?!) to use the real hostname? Also,
> minor really, the LogRotator link on top goes "Couldnt find
> class:rabbit.meta.LogRotator, java.lang.ClassNotFoundException:
> rabbit.meta.LogRotator" and Config says "File 'config\index.html' not
> found." (All this was on Rabbit 3.0.)
>   
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Samat Jain <http://www.samat.org/>