Automated Relevancy Feedback Modification of Mozilla source code to add in event tracking and modify content of incoming pages & outgoing requests (HTTP POST/ GET). Modification of existing HTTP proxy server to modify content. Implementation of new proxy server in PERL.

Mozilla The code is huge (something on the order of 10 megabytes of source, it’s hard to tell exactly what a minimal source distribution would be) and would therefore be pretty unwieldy for individuals to deal with. We would need to upgrade to CVS 1.10 and use gcc x instead of gcc 2.8.x which they don’t recommend.

Mozilla A fairly short searh of the code seemed to yeild an obvious place for logging a time / url / incoming HTTP stream, though of course it’s impossible to be sure without building it. The source distribution is 64+ megabytes, making it an issue in terms of disk quota.

Modification of existing HTTP proxy server A number of servers are available. Squid is the most popular, and also does caching ( A number of proxies available for Linux and other UNIX flavors at all written in C or Python.

Implementation of a New Proxy Server in PERL We are working on an implementation of HTTP proxy in PERL that will be available for project groups in the next two weeks. Open architecture will support setting up events on incoming and outgoing HTTP requests so that users can write their own functions to handle these requests based upon a history of actions. Software will run in a single user space, and work with existing browser supporting proxy (IE, Netscape, Mozilla, etc.).