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Squid

Crack: Google Authentication Services are Vulnerable

December 5, 2008
Google Services Authentication

There is a vulnerability in the way Google authentication service works. Whenever you login to any of the Google’s online services like GMail, Orkut, Groups, Docs, Youtube, Calendar etc., you are redirected to an authentication server which authenticates against the entered username and password and redirect back to the required service (GMail, Youtube etc.) setting [...]

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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.5)

November 19, 2008

After spending a lot of time with youtube cache, now I am trying to devote some time to update intelligentmirror with required features and enhancements that youtube cache already enjoys. In the same direction here is version 0.5 of intelligentmirror.
Improvements

Added max_parallel_downloads options to controll the maximum threading fetching from upstream to cache the packages.
Fine grained [...]

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IntelligentMirror Gets Even More Intelligent (1.0.1)

September 23, 2008

Warning : This version of IntelligentMirror is compatible with only squid-2.7 as of now. It is NOT compatible even with squid-3.0.
IntelligentMirror Version 1.0.1
I have been following squid development regularly (at least the part in which I am interested) and they have introduced a new directive in squid-2.7 known as StoreUrlRewrite (storeurl_rewrite_program). Using this directive you [...]

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IntelligentMirror: RPM and DEB Caching Improved (0.4)

September 19, 2008

IntelligentMirror version 0.4 is available now. There have been significant improvements in intelligent mirror since last release.
Improvements

Fixed defunct process problem. You will not see defunct python processes hanging around anymore. Previously every forked daemon used to got defucnt because parent never waited for the forked child to finish.
IntelligentMirror now supports caching of Debian packages just [...]

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IntelligentMirror: Available for Testing

August 19, 2008

Note : A newer version of intelligentmirror is available now. Please check this.
Intelligent Mirror is basically a tool or squid plugin (redirector) to cache rpm packages so that the subsequent requests for the same package can be served from the local cache which will eventually save a lot of bandwidth and downloading time.
Who needs Intelligent [...]

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IntelligentMirror: GSOC Project Update

June 2, 2008

Brief Introduction
IntelligentMirror can be used to create a mirror of static HTTP content on your local network. When you download something (say a software package) from Internet, it is stored/cached on a local machine on your network and subsequent downloads of that particular software package are supplied from the storage/cache of the local machine. This [...]

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How To: Configure Squid Proxy Server

May 2, 2008
Squid Caching Proxy Server

Mission
To configure squid for simple proxying without caching anything.
Use Cases

When you want to have control on what people browse on your lan.
When number of machine is more than the number of IP addresses you can afford to buy.
When you want to help this holy world in saving some IPV4 addresses

Assumptions

You have a machine [...]

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How To: Write Custom Redirector or Rewritor Plugin For Squid in Python

April 30, 2008

Mission
To write a custom Python program which can act as a plugin for Squid to redirect a given URL to another URL. This is useful when already existing redirector plugins for Squid doesn’t suit your needs or you want everything of your own.
Use Cases

When you want to redirect URLs using a database like mysql or [...]

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How To: Write Custom Basic Authentication Plugin for Squid in Python

April 24, 2008

Mission
To write a Python program which can be used to authenticate for Squid proxy server. This is useful when you don’t want to configure complex systems like LDAP, ntlm etc.
Use Cases

When you want to authenticate clients using mysql database.
When you want to authenticate clients using flat files or /etc/passwd file or some custom service on [...]

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How To: Configure Hierarchicy of Proxy Servers (Squid)

March 5, 2008

Yesterday I came across this idea of caching all the data that I browse on my hard disk so that the average load time of a website decreases. Actually the idea is I’ll cache all the static data that I browse like images, static html pages, CSS files and similar things which does not change [...]

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