[axel-users] axel_proxy script

[Y Giridhar Appaji Nag]

Hi Sam,

On 09/01/16 13:59 +0800, Sam Watkins said ...
> I wrote a shell script axel_proxy, which implements a simple caching web
> proxy server using axel. It runs from inetd (I'm using the package
> openbsd-inetd). The script is a bit messy but it's unusual anyway to see
> a web proxy written in 2.5Kb of shell script.
> 
>   http://sam.nipl.net/axel_proxy
> 
> I wrote this because my ISP is a bit dodgy and individual TCP
> connections are slow while many parallel connections run fast.

This is an interesting hack, thank you for the script :)

> It doesn't pass the correct headers from the client to the server yet, I
> don't think axel can do that yet.

axel can add arbitrary headers to the request using the -H option, would
that be useful?

Cheers,

Giridhar

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