On Apr 11, 2005 5:35 PM, Miguel A Paraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 11, 2005 5:26 PM, Edel SM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this one is an opensource compressing proxy (i dont kknow if this > > qualifies as accelerator), http://ziproxy.sourceforge.net/, ok naman. > > Interesting... until I saw the part that it runs out of an inetd. That > won't scale.
Not to mention.. compressing won't solve your problem over dialup. *ALL* modems already have compression hardware built-in. Software such as Propel's do "other things" to save time, e.g. keeping only one persistent connection open between the client PC and the proxy, degrading images smartly to reduce image size, blocking ads, compressing flash animations... the laundry list is long... and yes, i toyed with the notion of implementing my own propel-a-like. but in the end, it was better business sense to just pay Propel for their service (both from the name recall and technical side) than waste months and months trying to re-engineer it and quite probably ending up with a Free (as in speech) implementation that would do the job badly. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
