RabbIT web proxy

RabbIT proxy for a faster web

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RFC2616
RFC2068
w3c on HTTP

New release
rabbit 4.0

Download
Current version: 2.0.42
Java/5+ only
RabbIT2.jar
RabbIT2.zip
RabbIT2.tar.gz
jdk/1.4 version: 2.0.37d
RabbIT2.0.37d.jar

jdk/1.1 version: 2.0.26
RabbIT2-2.0.26.zip
RabbIT2-2.0.26.tar.gz

dnsjava source dnsjava-1.6.2.tar.gz
dnsjava-1.6.4.tar.gz

Contacts
Mailing lists

Robert Olofsson
robo@khelekore.org

Getting started

RabbIT is distributed both as a zipfile and a tarball. The zipfile is packaged so that you can run the rabbit.installer.Installer directly from it (so unzip it into an empty directory if you do it manually).
The tarball is packaged so that when you unpack it it creates a directory "RabbIt2/" where all files are placed. The recomended way is to get the zipfile and run the installer if possible.

The easy way

Download RabbIT2.jar
Install RabbIT by running "java -jar RabbIT2.jar"
cd to the directory where you installed RabbIT.
Start the proxy with jr
Edit your proxy settings in Netscape or Internet Explorer
Surf the web.

Using the tarball

Download RabbIT2.tar.gz
Unpack RabbIT.
Configure RabbIT
Start RabbIT
Edit your proxy settings in Netscape or Internet Explorer
Surf the web.

Unpacking
To unpack try something like this:
Unix:
if you have gnutar (gtar) you can do this:
computer> gtar -xvzf RabbIT.tar.gz
But if youre stuck with a native tar do this:
computer> gunzip RabbIT.tar.gz
computer> tar -xvf RabbIT.tar
Windows:
use Winzip

Configure RabbIT
The configuration files are

conf/rabbit.conf this file contains most settings for the proxy read it and modify it as you see fit.

conf/access this is were you allow people (or rather IP adresses) to use the proxy. By default RabbIT allowes everyone.

conf/users in this file you specify the usernames and password that are used for administration of RabbIT. By default RabbIT allowes the user RabbIT with the password RabbIT so change this unless you want everybody to play with your proxy.

Starting RabbIT
If you use unix try the script jr.
Windows try the command "java rabbit.proxy.Proxy"
Now if you get something like Class not found try to add "." to your CLASSPATH
bash:CLASSPATH=.:$CLASSPATH; export CLASSPATH
tcsh:setenv CLASSPATH .:$CLASSPATH
windows: set CLASSPATH=.;$CLASSPATH.

Proxy settings
Netscape: Edit->preferences->advanced->proxies
Choose "Manual proxy configuration" and press View.
In the field "HTTP Proxy" type the computer where RabbIT is running and the select the port RabbIT uses (standard is 9666).

Internet Explorer: View->Internet Options->connection
Type the name of the computer where RabbIT is running and select the port.