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Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error

[Brett H. <br...@ht...>]

Ok, I took out the first slash.  Seems to be past the problem with finding
the files...now I am getting bad conversion errors.  Anyone know what causes
those?

[08/Jan/2004:06:30:44 GMT][MSG][Configuration loaded, ready for action.]
[08/Jan/2004:06:30:44 GMT][MSG][Started]
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:06 GMT][WARN][expire date in the past: '0']
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:06 GMT][WARN][expire date in the past: '0']
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:07 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: c:\program
files\rabbit\rcache\temp\550]
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:07 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: c:\program
files\rabbit\rcache\temp\545]
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:07 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: c:\program
files\rabbit\rcache\temp\543]
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:07 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: c:\program
files\rabbit\rcache\temp\544]
[08/Jan/2004:06:31:22 GMT][MSG][unable to parse expire date: '-1' for URI:
'http://www.msn.com/']

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Olofsson" <d9...@na...>
To: "Brett Hays" <br...@ht...>
Cc: <rab...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error


> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Brett Hays wrote:
>
>> Here's what I have in rabbit.conf for convert
>> convert=/c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe
>>
>> Here's what I have for cache dir
>> directory=/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache
>
> Ok, why the initial slash? why forward slashes on a windows machine?
> can you try to change it to
> convert=c:\Program Files\convert\convert.exe
>
> and
>
> directory=c:\Program Files\rabbit\cache
>
>> >> ....
>> >> [07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing
>> >> request:java.io.IOException:
>> >> CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 
>> >> 10 -flatten
>> >> /c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385 jpeg:/c:/program
>> >> files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385.c error=123]
>
> Ok, rabbit does use the file systems directory separator, but you
> have given forward slashes, this may confuse rabbit and/or windows.
>
> /robo
>
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Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error

[Brett H. <br...@ht...>]

This is the result with all back slashes:


[08/Jan/2004:06:25:00 GMT][MSG][Configuration loaded, ready for action.]
[08/Jan/2004:06:25:00 GMT][MSG][Started]
[08/Jan/2004:06:25:33 GMT][MSG][unable to parse expire date: '-1' for URI: 
'http://www.msn.com/']
[08/Jan/2004:06:25:35 GMT][WARN][Error writing request:java.io.IOException: 
CreateProcess: \c:\Program Files\convert\convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten 
\c:\program files\rabbit\rcache\temp\462 jpeg:\c:\program 
files\rabbit\rcache\temp\462.c error=123]
[08/Jan/2004:06:25:35 GMT][WARN][Error writing request:java.io.IOException: 
CreateProcess: \c:\Program Files\convert\convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten 
\c:\program files\rabbit\rcache\temp\465 jpeg:\c:\program 
files\rabbit\rcache\temp\465.c error=123]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Olofsson" <d9...@na...>
To: "Brett Hays" <br...@ht...>
Cc: <rab...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 4:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error


> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Brett Hays wrote:
>
>> Here's what I have in rabbit.conf for convert
>> convert=/c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe
>>
>> Here's what I have for cache dir
>> directory=/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache
>
> Ok, why the initial slash? why forward slashes on a windows machine?
> can you try to change it to
> convert=c:\Program Files\convert\convert.exe
>
> and
>
> directory=c:\Program Files\rabbit\cache
>
>> >> ....
>> >> [07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing
>> >> request:java.io.IOException:
>> >> CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 
>> >> 10 -flatten
>> >> /c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385 jpeg:/c:/program
>> >> files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385.c error=123]
>
> Ok, rabbit does use the file systems directory separator, but you
> have given forward slashes, this may confuse rabbit and/or windows.
>
> /robo
>
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Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error

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

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Brett Hays wrote:

> Here's what I have in rabbit.conf for convert
> convert=/c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe
>
> Here's what I have for cache dir
> directory=/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache

Ok, why the initial slash? why forward slashes on a windows machine?
can you try to change it to
convert=c:\Program Files\convert\convert.exe

and

directory=c:\Program Files\rabbit\cache

> >> ....
> >> [07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing
> >> request:java.io.IOException:
> >> CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten
> >> /c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385 jpeg:/c:/program
> >> files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385.c error=123]

Ok, rabbit does use the file systems directory separator, but you
have given forward slashes, this may confuse rabbit and/or windows.

/robo

Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error

[Brett H. <br...@ht...>]

Here's what I have in rabbit.conf for convert

convert=/c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe

Here's what I have for cache dir

# The base directory for the cache.
directory=/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Olofsson" <d9...@na...>
To: "Brett Hays" <bh...@ht...>
Cc: <rab...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2004 2:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error


> On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Brett Hays wrote:
>
>> I have installed rabbit proxy tonight on a windows 2000 machine and it is
>> running fine, but it is failing to convert images.  I downloaded and
>> installed the ImageMagick package and it runs fine from command line. 
>> When
>> rabbit attempts to pass an image to convert.exe, however, I get 
>> error=123.
>>
>> It seems like the problem is the output from the $filename variable.  The
>> slashes need to go the other way to work on windows platform.  Is there a
>> way I can make this change?  I will paste a couple of lines from my
>> error_log below.
>> ....
>> [07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing 
>> request:java.io.IOException:
>> CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten
>> /c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385 jpeg:/c:/program
>> files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385.c error=123]
>
> Hmmm, mixing / and \ is probably not a good idea. Windows normally
> accepts / as directory separator if its the only separator.
> What does your config say about cache dir and about convert?
>
> Probably a bug in RabbIT, but may be easy to go around with config
> changes.
>
> I do not have access to any windows machine where I can try so please
> helpt me fix it...
>
> /robo
>
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Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error

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

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Brett Hays wrote:

> I have installed rabbit proxy tonight on a windows 2000 machine and it is
> running fine, but it is failing to convert images.  I downloaded and
> installed the ImageMagick package and it runs fine from command line.  When
> rabbit attempts to pass an image to convert.exe, however, I get error=123.
>
> It seems like the problem is the output from the $filename variable.  The
> slashes need to go the other way to work on windows platform.  Is there a
> way I can make this change?  I will paste a couple of lines from my
> error_log below.
> ....
> [07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing request:java.io.IOException:
> CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten
> /c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385 jpeg:/c:/program
> files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385.c error=123]

Hmmm, mixing / and \ is probably not a good idea. Windows normally
accepts / as directory separator if its the only separator.
What does your config say about cache dir and about convert?

Probably a bug in RabbIT, but may be easy to go around with config
changes.

I do not have access to any windows machine where I can try so please
helpt me fix it...

/robo

[Rabbit-proxy-users] Rabbit on Windows 2000 / Convert Error

[Brett H. <bh...@ht...>]

I have installed rabbit proxy tonight on a windows 2000 machine and it is 
running fine, but it is failing to convert images.  I downloaded and 
installed the ImageMagick package and it runs fine from command line.  When 
rabbit attempts to pass an image to convert.exe, however, I get error=123.

It seems like the problem is the output from the $filename variable.  The 
slashes need to go the other way to work on windows platform.  Is there a 
way I can make this change?  I will paste a couple of lines from my 
error_log below.

[07/Jan/2004:05:23:18 GMT][MSG][Configuration loaded, ready for action.]
[07/Jan/2004:05:23:18 GMT][MSG][Started]
[07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing request:java.io.IOException: 
CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten 
/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\382 jpeg:/c:/program 
files/rabbit/rcache\temp\382.c error=123]
[07/Jan/2004:05:24:43 GMT][WARN][Error writing request:java.io.IOException: 
CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten 
/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385 jpeg:/c:/program 
files/rabbit/rcache\temp\385.c error=123]
[07/Jan/2004:05:24:44 GMT][WARN][Error writing request:java.io.IOException: 
CreateProcess: /c:/Program Files/convert/convert.exe -quality 10 -flatten 
/c:/program files/rabbit/rcache\temp\388 jpeg:/c:/program 
files/rabbit/rcache\temp\388.c error=123] 

Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] BBC News images fail

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

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Murray KDE wrote:

> whilst trying to surf http://news.bbc.co.uk/ I get a
> lot of messages like these in the error logs

Odd, that site works really well for me. That is I get
it through rabbit a few seconds.
And since all the images seems to have size given in
the html the text show really quick.

> [05/Jan/2004:21:39:34 GMT][WARN][Failed to connect
> socket:java.io.IOException: Could not connect to the
> site: newsimg.bbc.co.uk/212.58.226.30:80]

Images seems to come from that site yes.

> any idea what is going on, and how it could be fixed?

Since it works fine for me its hard to say. What configuration are
you using for rabbit?

Did rabbit have some of the images in the cache?
Did your browser have this site in its cache?

> future feature suggestion : maintain state for a
> domain across multiple requests.  For instance, after
> 10 successive requests (or >75% total) for images from
> a domain have failed, replace any future requests for
> images from that domain with a holding graphic,
> similar to what is done with advert images now.

Could be a nice idea. will see if I do it in the future. But dont
expect it in the near future, I do not develop rabbit much anymore
(it work quite nicely for my needs so no big things to fix).

/robo

[Rabbit-proxy-users] BBC News images fail

[Murray K. <kde...@ya...>]

whilst trying to surf http://news.bbc.co.uk/ I get a
lot of messages like these in the error logs

[05/Jan/2004:21:39:34 GMT][WARN][Failed to connect
socket:java.io.IOException: Could not connect to the
site: newsimg.bbc.co.uk/212.58.226.30:80]
[05/Jan/2004:21:39:34 GMT][WARN][couldnt connect to
the remote site (connect timed out)]

the site also loads painfully slowly, as it appears to
have to wait for ever for each image, which often then
never turns up.

surfing to the site at the same time, in a non-proxied
browser works fine.

any idea what is going on, and how it could be fixed?

future feature suggestion : maintain state for a
domain across multiple requests.  For instance, after
10 successive requests (or >75% total) for images from
a domain have failed, replace any future requests for
images from that domain with a holding graphic,
similar to what is done with advert images now.

This could "timeout", and or silently re-try for the
real image on later requests, and if the site came
back to life, RabbIT could switch the images back in.

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[Rabbit-proxy-users] Performance questions

[Richard D A. <ral...@wi...>]

Hello everyone!

I searched the archives and know that it's tough to determine what
hardware is required to support a certain number of users, but I would
like to know what kind of hardware and OS some of you are having luck
with and the number of users you are serving!

Thanks!

-Rich

[Rabbit-proxy-users] RabbIT with Treo 600 Blazer 3 browser not compressing images?

[Rob L. <li...@dy...>]

Greetings,

I have a new Treo 600 and I was hoping to use RabbIT to be able to have my own
proxy based browsing solution for when I wanted to hit large image pages that
would take forever over my 1xRTT connection.  I've set the proxy in Blazer and
it actually lets me browse to a page, however, the images are not compressed.
 I've used the Firebird on my desktop to verify that it (Firebird) IS getting
compressed images.  They are both using the same proxy on the same port.

The logs don't tell me anything definative except that the proxy is being used
by both Firebird and Blazer.

Any ideas?

-Rob

[Rabbit-proxy-users] Can't get options

[Dmitry Y. <ft...@tu...>]

Hi,

  Thanks for great software!

  It works OK, I've set up users authentication.

  in both conf/users & conf/allowed I placed my login and password.

  Then I can successfully browse internet and can't get access to
  http://www.xxx.com:9666/        (xxx for example)

  I get
  407 Proxy Authentication Required
  access to: http://xxx:9666/
  requires some authentication

  Look at the difference:
  http://www.xxx.com:9666/ & http://xxx:9666/
  
  domainname returns xxx
  

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Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] IE6+Rabbit (oops)

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

On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Chris Wilson wrote:

> 500 Internal Server Error

> proxy version: RabbIT proxy version 2.0.27
> ....
> java.version: 1.3.1_03

Changelog
2.0.27 (20030707) RabbIT now requires jre/1.4 due to some
networking...

Can  you see the pattern?

either upgrade to jre/1.4.x or run 2.0.26, there are no big changes
between the two releases...

/robo

[Rabbit-proxy-users] [13/Nov/2003:02:05:12 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/61]

[Chris W. <csw...@ne...>]

hey,

when loading various gif's off of websites, I get the following error in =
my error_log, and the images dont show up in IE;

[13/Nov/2003:02:05:12 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/61]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:14 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/65]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:15 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/70]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:15 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/72]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:15 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/73]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:15 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/75]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:15 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/74]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:16 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/76]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:16 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/77]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:16 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/78]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:16 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/79]
[13/Nov/2003:02:05:17 GMT][WARN][Bad conversion: /tmp/rcache/temp/81]


Does anyone know of  solution?=20

Thanks!=3D]

Chris

[Rabbit-proxy-users] IE6+Rabbit (oops)

[Chris W. <csw...@ne...>]

Hit my CTRL+S =3D]

I am getting this error with rabbit and IE6 when trying to browse, has =
anyone had this problem?


500 Internal Server Error
You have found a bug in RabbIT please report this(together with the URL =
you tried to visit) to the RabbIT crew.

Connection status

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-------
status: Handling request
started: Tue Nov 11 17:17:31 GMT+00:00 2003
keepalive: true
meta: false
mayusecache: false
maycache: true
mayfilter: true
requestline: GET http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/gettingstarted.shtml =
HTTP/1.0
statuscode: 200
extrainfo: null
contentlength: -

Proxy status

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-------
proxy version: RabbIT proxy version 2.0.27
proxy identity: ..SPIFFY Huh?..
server host: atreides.netxn.com/127.0.0.1
server port: 9666
accessfilters: rabbit.filter.AccessFilter
httpinfilters: =
rabbit.filter.HTTPBaseFilter,rabbit.filter.DontFilterFilter
httpoutfilters:rabbit.filter.HTTPBaseFilter

System properties

-------------------------------------------------------------------------=
-------
java.version: 1.3.1_03
java.vendor: Sun Microsystems Inc.
os.name: Linux
os.version: 2.4.20-20.8
os.arch: i386
error is:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java/net/SocketAddress
	at =
rabbit.io.ConnectionHandler.getConnection(ConnectionHandler.java:167)
	at rabbit.proxy.Proxy.getWebConnection(Proxy.java:239)
	at rabbit.proxy.Connection.setupWebConnection(Connection.java:1338)
	at rabbit.proxy.Connection.handleRequest(Connection.java:1574)
	at rabbit.proxy.Connection.filterAndHandleRequest(Connection.java:199)
	at rabbit.proxy.Connection.doWork(Connection.java:293)
	at rabbit.util.RestartableThread.run(RestartableThread.java:28)

[Rabbit-proxy-users] IE6+Rabbit Problems

[Chris W. <csw...@ne...>]

Hello,

I'm having problems with my rabbit configuration, has anyone seen this =
error:

[Rabbit-proxy-users] RabbIT2/2.0.27 released

[Robert O. <ro...@kh...>]

Only a few minor bug fixes. But RabbIT now requires jdk/1.4 due
to some networking fixes.

Get it at:
http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/

Changelog at:
http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/changelog.shtml

Have fun
/robo

Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Can RabbIT compress images that doesn't allow caching? (fwd)

[Robert O. <ro...@kh...>]

>I use RabbIT all the time. It compresses most images I download. Once
>a while, I notice some images that are not compressed. For example,
>most images on the New York Times web site (www.nytimes.com) is not
>compressed by RabbIT. 
>
Seems like it, yes.

>I think it's because they set the attributes to
>not-cacheable. i.e. the "maycache" variable in ImageHandler.java is
>false for those images. 
>
Correct, maycache is false.

>Is there a way for RabbIT to compress those
>images? It'll greatly increase the speed of those web sites. If it
>requires some code change, I can try to do it if someone can give me
>some guidance.
>
It is possible to compress thoose pages. To find the reason why they are 
not
I look at the http header, for theire logo my mozilla sent this:

GET 
http://graphics7.nytimes.com/images/section/homepage/NYT_home_banner.gif 
HTTP/1.1
Host: graphics7.nytimes.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030411
Cookie: RMID=831809a8318c3ec003d11da8; 
tpopunder_orbitz20-nyt4=1053978272; spopunder=1
....<a lot of other headers>....

If you look in the HTTPBaseFilter you will see that it tries to disable 
caching for sites
that use cookie based ids. That was originally added to keep hotmail 
users happy. Im not
sure its needed anymore. Basically the site is broken if it does not 
send correct headers back.
You can try to remove the check at  HTTPBaseFilter.java:310, but it may 
break some sites.
You could also try to restrict the test done.

/robo

[Rabbit-proxy-users] Can RabbIT compress images that doesn't allow caching?

[Cheuk-san E. W. <wa...@ai...>]

Thanks for the great RabbIT software. 

I use RabbIT all the time. It compresses most images I download. Once
a while, I notice some images that are not compressed. For example,
most images on the New York Times web site (www.nytimes.com) is not
compressed by RabbIT. I think it's because they set the attributes to
not-cacheable. i.e. the "maycache" variable in ImageHandler.java is
false for those images. Is there a way for RabbIT to compress those
images? It'll greatly increase the speed of those web sites. If it
requires some code change, I can try to do it if someone can give me
some guidance.

Thanks in advance.

Cheuksan Wang

[Rabbit-proxy-users] Question on system req.

[dar s. <ju...@ho...>]

Hi,

I had once tried using a cyrix IBM MII 333 64MB Ram (ALL onboard SIS55984mb 
VGA) and presently a Coopermine 566(Overclocked to 700MHZ) with 385MB ram 
(western digital 10GB and could not see any diffrence. As a rule in all 
applications, each is bound to a software performance limit. No matter how 
fast your hardware is . More or less As like in other simmilar proxies Ive 
used (squid, apache, ISA MS, and netscape and even wingate and winroute, the 
addressing of hardware is best seen on the load of your program. If i was 
running a proxy specially a filtering one on a 333mhz 64MB harware surely 
its performance will greatly vary if used only for 10 users and 100 users. 
One thng nice about rabbit is that it isrunning on optimum . Also consider 
the factor that its a filtering proxy. Imagemagick is resource consuming (if 
youre using it) and also OS. (I see that the performance is very low and 
buggy in win32 (not bec. of  the proxy design - java is supposed to be more 
efficient in win32 and 64- but bec. of  image magic )(take notthat NT has 
the convert command also).

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Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Question on system req.

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

> Looking at ~24 or 48 concurrent dial-up (56k) users to start, and a "yet to
> be decided" number of wireless PocketPC/Notebook (19.2k-56k) users...
> Depends on what hardware we'll need.

Still depends on how much they will use the service and what type of
work they do. Since rabbit caches the compressed pages you will use
very little  extra cpu when 2:nd client access the pages as the 1:st
client.

My advice would be to start with whatever cpu you have
to spare and see how it scales. My guess would be that if they
your clients are active you should probably be ok with a p3/1GHz
or similar, maybe give the jvm some more ram than the standard 64Mb
heap.

It would be very good to hear what type of setup you end up with.

I think that it is very hard to know how web surfers will behave in
advance. What does 2 concurrent users mean? that they access separate
resources the same second? minute? 10-minute span?

If you count on it you will probably see that a standard web page is
2-100k big for html and a lot more for images (depending on site).
Sending 100k compress on 56k modem would probably take 4-5 seconds
(~20k compressed data, 5k a second). On my 1GHz machine:

robo@grunt:/tmp$ time gzip rfc2616.txt
real    0m0.092s
user    0m0.080s
sys     0m0.010s

So compression should not use very much cpu compared to sending
the data (this file actually only compressed to .27).

www.cnn.com/index.html goes down from 52797 to 11291 (0.21) and takes
real    0m0.009s
user    0m0.010s
sys     0m0.000s

> Is there user level configuration for filtering/image compression?  If not,
> any trouble running multiple instances with different configurations on
> different ports?

No user level configuration exists.
Different instances works nicely. Some day Ill implemnt several
servers (ports) in one instance (should be easy, only need to make
sure each instance runs in its own ClassLoader).

Have fun
/robo

Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Question on system req.

[John K. <jo...@we...>]

> > Wondering if anyone has any stats available on how rabbIT performs on
> > various hardware... say a P2 400 vs. a P4 3GHz under varying user loads.
>
> I do not have such statistics.
>
> > I'm trying to get an idea of what the hardware requirements are. Can I
get
> > way with a visit to the closet scrap heap, or should this be run on
> > relatively powerful hardware?  Is a dedicated machine preferred, or can
it
> > live in harmony on a lightly used web server?
>
> For what type of load will you use it?
> Can you give an estimate of the number of users and how much they
> will use the service? Can you describe the clients (pda? normal pc on
> modem? or are you planning to use rabbit for ad filtering?).
> What OS and jvm do you plan to use? jdk1.1 will let you run rabbit,
> but jdk1.4 is faster and better in many ways. IBM's jvm will most
> probably perform better than the SUN jvm.
>

Looking at ~24 or 48 concurrent dial-up (56k) users to start, and a "yet to
be decided" number of wireless PocketPC/Notebook (19.2k-56k) users...
Depends on what hardware we'll need.

Image compression and filtering would be desired for most, if not all,
users... bringing me to my next question;
Is there user level configuration for filtering/image compression?  If not,
any trouble running multiple instances with different configurations on
different ports?

Thanks,
-John

Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] Question on system req.

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

> Wondering if anyone has any stats available on how rabbIT performs on
> various hardware... say a P2 400 vs. a P4 3GHz under varying user loads.

I do not have such statistics.

> I'm trying to get an idea of what the hardware requirements are. Can I get
> way with a visit to the closet scrap heap, or should this be run on
> relatively powerful hardware?  Is a dedicated machine preferred, or can it
> live in harmony on a lightly used web server?

For what type of load will you use it?
Can you give an estimate of the number of users and how much they
will use the service? Can you describe the clients (pda? normal pc on
modem? or are you planning to use rabbit for ad filtering?).
What OS and jvm do you plan to use? jdk1.1 will let you run rabbit,
but jdk1.4 is faster and better in many ways. IBM's jvm will most
probably perform better than the SUN jvm.

My initial guess is that if your clients will be pda's on cell on
cell phones you can get whatever hardware you can get, some hard disk
space may be required if you will cache pages for long.

If you configure rabbit to only be a proxy with no filtering it will
use very little cpu, if you enable image compression and adfiltering
you will use much cpu. So depending on the configuration your results
will vary much.

Letting rabbit share cpu with a web server should be fine. I see no
reason to use a dedicated server unless you have _many_ clients doing
heavy requests.

Have fun
/robo

[Rabbit-proxy-users] Question on system req.

[John K. <jo...@we...>]

Wondering if anyone has any stats available on how rabbIT performs on
various hardware... say a P2 400 vs. a P4 3GHz under varying user loads.

I'm trying to get an idea of what the hardware requirements are. Can I get
way with a visit to the closet scrap heap, or should this be run on
relatively powerful hardware?  Is a dedicated machine preferred, or can it
live in harmony on a lightly used web server?

Thanks,
-John

Re: [Rabbit-proxy-users] games.yahoo.com is not accessible (fwd)

[Robert O. <ro...@kh...>]

Hello!

>When I go to games.yahoo.com, with any browser with
>rabbit running on port 9666 (or any other port), I am
>not able to play games on the site. The java applet
>gfails to load, and there is a Malformed URL
>Exception.
>  
>
Ok, the java plugin handles compressed pages badly.
Since RabbIT does not check the Accept-Encoding it sends some
(config?) files to the java plugin. Class files and zip/jars are normally
handled nicely since they have a mime type of application/octet-stream
or something else (!= text/html, text/plain).

I updated the DontFilterFilter to handle user agents also, that is a 
quick fix
9 line patch attached. After the patch has been applied and rabbit has been
recompiled (with "make code")  I added one line: 
"dontFilterAgentsMatching=Java"
to rabbit.conf in the  section [rabbit.filter.DontFilterFilter]. After this
games seems to work for me.

Im not sure which user agent the java plugin uses under windows (the IE 
standard
java/1.1 plugin that is),  Enable the HTTPSnoop filter on httpinfilters 
to check
if "Java" does not work and add to the list (currently case sensitive).

/robo

[Rabbit-proxy-users] games.yahoo.com is not accessible

[Technical E. <te...@ya...>]

When I go to games.yahoo.com, with any browser with
rabbit running on port 9666 (or any other port), I am
not able to play games on the site. The java applet
gfails to load, and there is a Malformed URL
Exception.

Please help

TX

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