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Manipulating Content

I test drove a beta version of SiteCelerate in our Real-World Labs® in Green Bay, Wis. You must use a console session to perform the initial network configuration, then use the Web-based GUI for subsequent configuration. Little setup is required for basic functionality, and within minutes I was able to use the device as a manual proxy.

URL redirection lets you manipulate the URLs sent via the proxy and direct them to alternative content or servers. You could easily mess with your co-workers by setting the device to translate www.google.com to www.yahoo.com.

More practically, you can use the URL redirection to force the device to pull images from one server while pulling content from another, letting you design a more efficient Web site and take full advantage of HTTP 1.1 without purchasing an expensive load-balancing solution.

I configured SiteCelerate to fulfill requests from two internal servers--an Apache server on RH 7.3 for images and a Spirent Communications WebReflector (formerly from Caw Networks, which was acquired by Spirent) for static content.