Muffin 0.9 README
Copyright (C) 1996-2003 Mark R. Boyns <boyns@doit.org>

Muffin - a filtering proxy server for the World Wide Web.

Features:

* Written entirely in Java.  Requires JDK 1.1 or greater.
  Runs on Unix, Windows 95/NT, and MacOS.

* Freely available under the GNU General Public License.

* Support for HTTP/0.9, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1, and SSL (https).

* Graphical user interface and command-line interface.

* Remote admin interface using HTML forms.

* Includes several filters which can remove cookies, kill GIF animations,
  remove advertisements, add/remove/modify arbitrary HTML tags (like blink),
  remove Java applets and Javascript, user-agent spoofing, rewrite URLs, and
  much more.

* View all HTTP headers to aid in CGI development and debugging.

* Users can write their own filters in Java using the provided filter
  interfaces.

Also included in this distribution:

* glossary - Jigsaw Glossary filter
  by Joel Crisp <joelc@bristol.st.com> and the W3C & Jigsaw teams
  http://www.asmodeus.demon.co.uk/glossary.htm
  http://www.w3.org/

* Parts of the SDSU java library
  by Roger Whitney <whitney@cs.sdsu.edu>
  http://www.eli.sdsu.edu/java-SDSU/

* Part of HTTPClient.Codecs.java (org.doit.util.Base64.java)
  by Ronald Tschalaer <ronald@innovation.ch>
  http://www.innovation.ch/java/HTTPClient/

* gnu.regexp - Regular Expressions For Java
  by Wes Biggs <wes@cacas.org>
  http://www.cacas.org/~wes/java/

* gnu.getopt - GNU Getopt in Java
  by Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com>
  http://www.urbanophile.com/arenn/hacking/download.html

* dnsjava - implementation of DNS in Java
  by Brian Wellington (bwelling@xbill.org)
  http://www.xbill.org/dnsjava

Send suggestions and bug reports to <boyns@doit.org>

$Id: README,v 1.16 2003/01/03 23:06:29 boyns Exp $