Re: [lazarus] A counting proxy in lazarus ?
On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 12:55:01PM +0200, A.J. Venter wrote: > Put an http proxy inside the outkafe counter window, send the browser > through it. This proxy need not cache ANYTHING. It ONLY needs to relay > the http traffic back and forth - and count the bytes coming in (Each > instance can run on it's own port - no problems there) (Afaik Indy 10 has a HTTP proxy component, check it out) _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
[lazarus] A counting proxy in lazarus ?
Hi all, I have an interesting challenge before me. A user has requested the ability to keep track of http traffic used by OutKafe users. These should count against the user's available usage units the same way time does now (so a big downloader will run out of access quicker basically) After some thought and discussion, I came to the conclusion that in their environment the approach should be this (keep in mind we're only concerned about http): Put an http proxy inside the outkafe counter window, send the browser through it. This proxy need not cache ANYTHING. It ONLY needs to relay the http traffic back and forth - and count the bytes coming in (Each instance can run on it's own port - no problems there) So my question is - can I do this with the INet components ? If I hook up INet's http server and http client components into my app - can I then let the browser connect to the httpserver component as a proxy client, and have the httpclient component relay the same connection ? How hard would this be ? Does the INet components have the tools I would need to count the bytes ? If none of this is an option - is there another (easy) way I can do this ? Perhaps a plugin for squid that can report on bandwith used by each user ? Or perhaps just a proxy interface that can report this to stdout ? Or would you guys suggest some entirely different approach ? (I am open to possibility here) Of course, a way to just track 'traffic per user' and respond each time one meg is transferred could be ideal - again I'm open to suggestion. TIA A.J. -- A.J. Venter CEO - OutKast Solutions C.C. http://www.outkastsolutions.co.za Cell: +27 83 455 9978 Fax: +27 21 413 2800 Office: +27 21 591 6766 _ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
