RE: Proxy code size.

From: James A. Donald <jdonald@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 15:56:42 -0700

"James A. Donald" wrote:
> > I observe that a mere transport HTTP proxy typically costs about two
> > thousand lines of code.
> >
> > A filtering HTTP proxy costs about four thousand lines of code.

Dancer [mailto:dancer@zeor.simegen.com] writes:
> I'll have to count mine. About 200 and 250 lines, respectively.

TinyProxy, which seems more like a skeleton proxy, a basis for writing a
proxy
rather than a real proxy, costs one thousand five hundred lines of code.
Received on Wed Aug 11 1999 - 16:34:19 MDT

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