cephalopod PRERELEASE

Cephalopod is software for simulating the operation of a Squid web proxy/cache. This is prerelease software; this means several things:

1. The documentation isn't up to much. The only real doc available is the report describing my Masters project (which includes an appendix outlining the program, and a few notes scattered throughout the main text).
2. It's almost certainly buggy. Please let me know if you encounter a bug!
3. The code might not be as portable as it should be. It's only known to run on Solaris boxen, but it should run on pretty much anything -- there's nothing very special about it.

This prerelease is being distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The finished product, should there ever be one, will be too in all likelihood.

Here's some stuff to download, then:

• source code (gzipped tarball). You'll need a C++ compiler to compile this; if you have g++ then you won't even need to edit the Makefile :)
• the report mentioned above (gzipped postscript)
• a paper I presented at AusWeb about my work. It's less detailed than the full report, but probably more interesting.