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RabbIT is the First Open Source Proxy to Demonstrate HTTP Compliance

Business Wire, Sept 16, 2003

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 16, 2003

RabbIT Web Proxy Is The First Open Source HTTP Intermediary To

Pass Stringent Compliance Testing Offered By Measurement

Factory's Co-Advisor Test Suite

Robert Olofsson, author of the RabbIT proxy, announced that his software has successfully passed all 668 HTTP/1.1 (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) compliance tests offered by the Co-Advisor suite.

The tests covered applicable "must"-level requirements for HTTP proxies. Co-Advisor is a protocol compliance and robustness test suite developed by The Measurement Factory and is the first and only HTTP/1.1 compliance suite in general availability.

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RabbIT is a web proxy designed to speed up slow network connections, like those going over modems or mobile phones. RabbIT can compress data, transform images into low quality versions, and remove unwanted contents like advertising and background images. One of the goals for RabbIT has always been to follow HTTP standard so that it works nicely with all the major web browsers and web servers. The tests offered by Co-Advisor allowed Robert's team to improve RabbIT performance and reliability.

Because RabbIT's content transformation functions are CPU-intensive, a cache of modified responses helps achieve good performance. By following the HTTP/1.1 caching standard, RabbIT minimizes traffic sent over the Internet, both when talking to client browsers and origin web servers.

"Using the Co-Advisor test suite was simple and straightforward," said Robert Olofsson, RabbIT's author. "The web interface provides easy access to test management functions and includes references to the relevant parts of RFC 2616 for each of the test cases. The full test output is very detailed and gives good information about what needs to be done to achieve compliance."

Alex Rousskov of The Measurement Factory added, "The RabbIT development team takes HTTP compliance very seriously. We are happy to see more HTTP intermediaries, including open source products, becoming HTTP/1.1 compliant with Co-Advisor and making the Internet a better place to live."

Co-Advisor tests for formal HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616) compliance and robustness. Co-Advisor is developed by The Measurement Factory, makers of unique protocol performance benchmarks and compliance test suites. Co-Advisor is the only vendor-neutral compliance suite, developed by an independent company with credibility for honest and unbiased testing tools. For details, visit www.measurement-factory.com.

Business Services Industry

RabbIT is the First Open Source Proxy to Demonstrate HTTP Compliance

Business Wire, Sept 16, 2003

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