[techtalk] HELP! Webserver compromised?!?

[jenn at simegen.com]

Mary Gardiner wrote:


> Martin Pool, at Linuxcare Australia is even developing a proxying method based on
> rsync, so you can request only the changed data in a page based on exchanage of
> checksums via the rsync algorithm. This is based on the idea that many pages, like
> Slashdot have a great deal of tables and so on for formatting purposes (they might
> consititute above a third of the page for example) that very rarely change, whereas
> the data may change more rapidly.

Hrm. Do you know his email? Or would he be willing to contact Dancer?
dancer at simegen.com?
Dancer's done a lot of Squid proxy work and is also considering 
rsync as a proxying tool. Since they're both Open Source geeks, 
collaboration could be a Good Thing.



Jenn V.
-- 
     "Do you ever wonder if there's a whole section of geek culture
             you miss out on by being a geek?" - Dancer.

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