Pound

Pound - Reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper

Pound is a reverse HTTP proxy, load balancer, and SSL wrapper. It proxies client HTTPS requests to HTTP backend servers, distributes the requests among several servers while keeping sessions, supports HTTP/1.1 requests even if the backend server(s) are HTTP/1.0, and sanitizes requests. Pound proxies HTTO _and HTTPS requests simultaneously. In addition, it knows about failed back-end servers and can redirect requests according to their availability.

It can run as setuid/setgid and/or in a chroot jail. Pound does not access the hard-disk at all (except for reading the certificate file on start, if required, and the pid file) and should thus pose no security threat to any machine. It needs at least the configuration file (read-only) and, optionally, the HTTPS server certificate (read-only).

Obtaining

Web page	http://www.apsis.ch/pound/
Source tarball	http://www.apsis.ch/pound/Pound-1.7.tgz

Version 1.7 (beta) released on 2004-03-24

Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2.

This is not a GNU package.

Documentation

User manpage and README included in the distribution

Support contacts

Help List	<roseg@apsis.ch>
Developer List	<roseg@apsis.ch>
Bug List	<roseg@apsis.ch>
Support	Paid consulting and technical support available from Apsis GmbH at http://www.apsis.ch/

Project contacts

Maintainers	Robert Segall <roseg@apsis.ch>
Developers	Robert Segall <roseg@apsis.ch>
Contributors	Ken Lalonde <ken@torus.ca> Frank Denis <j@pureftpd.org> Gurkan Sengun <gurkan@linuks.mine.nu>
Sponsors	Apsis GmbH

Related information

Interfaces	command line
Source languages	C
Build prerequisites	OpenSSL (-lssl), pthreads (-lpthread; pthreads is not a library but a compilation flag on OpenBSD)
Weak prerequisites	pthreads (-lcrypt, -lsocket and/or -lnsl)
Related programs	Stunnel, Squid, Apache, Zope

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-23
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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