[WLANware] Idea for GSoC project

[Kirill]

Thank you for the reply, Andreas!

My proposal mentioned openwrt environment, indeed. But perhaps I need
to generalize it. I'm talking about high-speed proxy server with low
memory footprint, and I'm going to make it highly customizable with
Lua scripting engine. It can be run on any servers or embeddable devices.
Development process can be done using regular PC, OpenWRT port
is going to be released afterwards (but within GSoC timeline for sure)
and there openwrt community can be of help. So, mentor for this project
just should have understanding of Linux, C, optionally Lua and obviously
networking :-) Basically, we are going to turn effective proxy server with
low amount of features into swiss army knife here :-)


-- Alexey


2016-03-17 17:53 GMT+03:00 Andreas Bräu <ab at andi95.de>:

> Hi Kirill,
>
> your idea sounds interesting so far. Your biggest challenge will be to
> find a mentor willing to do this project, too. You could propose your
> idea to openwrt developers on their list as well. And time is running :-)
>
> On the other hand you could look on our ideas page if there's an idea
> working for you.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Andi
>
> Am 17.03.2016 um 07:42 schrieb Kirill:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I have an idea for GSoC project. It seems Freifunk is suitable place for
> > my idea.
> > I can work on detailed proposal but I am not sure if you will be
> > interested in it.
> > Let me briefly describe it and see if there is interest and I should
> > work on it.
> >
> > The project is about "tinyproxy" which is great small lightweight proxy
> > available
> > in openwrt. It's fast but not really have a lot of features (like squid
> > for instance),
> > neither it have easy way to customize it (just by hacking it's source
> > code; while
> > its sources are great, that's not really good or simple way). I suggest
> > embedding
> > Lua scripting engine into it. It will lead to a lot of useful
> > applications: whatever
> > you can imagine e.g. rewriting headers/content in any way, distributing
> > traffic
> > between pool of upstream proxy servers, custom reverse proxying. Also
> we're
> > going to maintain small memory footprint, high speed and scalability.
> One of
> > examples of somewhat similiar piece of software is succesful MySQL proxy
> > project:
> >
> > https://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql-proxy/en/mysql-proxy-scripting.html
> >
> > Please reply if there's interest (or no) in such project, so I should
> > start working on
> > my proposal or abandon it.
> >
> > Thank you in advance.
> >
> >
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