NCA and Proxy 4.0
So what's NCA? NCA is Sun's Network Cache Accelerator, which is an
in-kernel web accelerator. If anyone out there is...
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3.6 -> 4.0
Some stuff that we noted down while migrating a few ITOPS proxies
from 3.6 to 4.0.4:
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SWPS 4.0 and Squid
Last day we needed to come up with some quick data on how proxy 4.0
compares with Squid, for an internal requirement. Soon a couple of
facts became...
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Bandwidth Control - Continued
This is an
nsapi plugin for applying bandwidth control in Sun Proxy Server 4.0...
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Living with Proxy 4.0
For the past few months, we have been working with ITOPS people to get our Sun
ITOPS proxies moved to 4.0. Starting with 4.0, and then...
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Perl and NSAPI
Whew after a nightmarish ride through perlembed, perlglut, perlapi, perlcall blah blah,
have managed to add perl support to the scripting plugin. So now...
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Tweaking the Cache Lookup logic
The complaint here is that the Proxy's current cache lookup approach is too
"digital" - if a cache file exists, try to serve the client from...
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Bandwidth Control
Been browsing idly, when i happened to come across the "delay pool" feature offered
by Squid. It was an interesting concept, and soon...
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Caching and Proxy "Chains"
I recently added some more functionality to the NSAPI scripting plugin:
1. -f, -s, and -d options to the test comm...
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Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0.3 is Released
Sun Java System Web Proxy Server 4.0.3 is released, and available for
download Here.
With over 100 bugfixes, 4.0.3 is even more stable, secure, and faster, and is a
huge improvement over previous versions of 4.0.
Modifying client headers
In the nsapi scripting plugin, earlier, i had added a setheader command
through which a header:value can be inserted into the...
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A simple NSAPI script for Authentication
This is a very simple authentication script using the scripting plugin. The
authentication "database" is a simple...
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NSAPI scripting plugin for Solarix x86
I tried building the NSAPI scripting plugin on x86, and it went through fine. And in
the process, came upon a couple of bugs - which were...
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NSAPI scripting - continued...
I've been working on the scripting plugin whenever i could find time - mostly
weekends - and it's around 7k lines of code...
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Scripting alternative to NSAPI?
Nsapi, We all know, stands for "Netscape Application Programming Interface". And we also know that it offers a very powerful approach for modifying/extending a Sun 6.x/7.0...
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