This is to announce the release of Pound v0.3. Changes from previous version: - added HTTP/1.1 handling, resulting in significant speed-ups. - added HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/1.0 proxying: if the client is 1.1 compliant, Pound will accept multiple requests per connection, while dealing with the need to re-open connections to a back-end HTTP/1.0 server. - fixed a few minor bugs. Many thanks to Ken Lalonde ken@torus.ca for his very helpful suggestions. What is Pound (from the Web page) - a reverse-proxy: it passes requests from client browsers to one or more back-end servers. - a load balancer: it will distribute the requests from the client browsers among several back-end servers, while keeping session information. - an SSL wrapper: Pound will decrypt HTTPS requests from client browsers and pass them as plain HTTP to the back-end browsers. - an HTTP/HTTPS sanitizer: Pound will verify requests for correctness and accept only well-formed ones. - an HTTP/1.1 to 1.0 proxy. For further information, download, etc. please see http://www.apsis.ch/pound The software is at version 0.3. Further testing (especially under heavy loads), improvements and suggestions are welcome. Pound is distributed under the GPL. Enjoy and let me know how it works for you. -- Robert Segall Apsis GmbH Postfach, Uetikon am See, CH-8707 Tel: +41-1-920 4904