Jesred 1.0, Copyright (C) 1998 Jens Elkner (elkner@ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de) http://ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/~elkner/webtools/jesred/ This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html or ./gpl.html You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. ------------------ Jesred is a Squid redirector program. ------------------- It is derived from Chris Foote's and Wayne Piekarski's squirm 1.0 betaB (see http://www.senet.com.au/squirm/) and uses some slightly modified routines (IP ACL stuff) from squid (see http://squid.nlanr.net). For more information about Squid redirectors see http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ-14.html Main improvements wrt. squirm 1.0 betaB: ========================================= - uses a configuration file (jesred.conf) - strict usage of subnet/mask notation and squid's ip acl lists to determine, whether to rewrite the passed URL for a specific client/sibling or not (probably a big plus for Class A and B networks) - optionally allows to rewrite URL's for siblings as well - optionally logging of common and error messages to a file - optionally logging of URL rewrites to a separate file - avoids persistent opening/closing of the log file[s] - supports reconfiguration via 'kill -HUP pid' and re-reads the complete configuration file, and that's why it is able to change the following on the fly, i.e. no need to restart squid: - change the used log file[s] (useful for log file rotation - just rewrite jesred.conf and send a HUP signal to jesred processes) - enable/disable logging - enable/disable debug mode if compiled with DEBUG option - enable/disable URL rewriting of ICP_QUERY (sibling) requests ****************************************** - finally: * ABOUT TWICE AS FAST as squirm 1.0betaB * ****************************************** (even with ICP_QUERY URL rewriting it was still twice as fast as squirm - remember: squirm allows to rewrite GET requests only! I tested with the extract of the first 100.000 entries from our parent cache's access.log file and our class B subnet - i.e. 141.44.0.0/16 ) Main drawback wrt. squirm 1.0 betaB: ===================================== - it uses about 256 KB more than squirm on solaris 2.6 (but anyway, it is still less than perl 5.004 ;-))