Start with getting the source code from github.
$ git clone git://github.com/internetarchive/liveweb.git
$ cd liveweb
Setup a virtualenv.
$ make venv
This will create the virtualenv in the current directory. Edit the Makefile if you want to setup virtualenv elsewhere.
Run the application using:
$ make run
This will start the liveweb proxy at localhost:7070.
Assuming the liveweb proxy is running on localhost:7070:
$ curl -s -x localhost:7070 http://httpbin.org/get | zcat
http://httpbin.org/get 204.236.238.79 20120427110218 application/json 451
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:02:18 GMT
Server: gunicorn/0.13.4
Content-Length: 298
Connection: Close
{
"url": "http://httpbin.org/get",
"headers": {
"Content-Length": "",
"Accept-Encoding": "identity",
"Connection": "keep-alive",
"User-Agent": "ia_archiver(OS-Wayback)",
"Host": "httpbin.org",
"Content-Type": ""
},
"args": {},
"origin": "207.241.237.193"
}
Enable http-passthrough mode by adding the following to the config file.
http_passthough: true
Make sure caching is disabled. The http-passthough mode doesn’t work with caching.
Run the application and change the browser setting to use application address (localhost:7070 by default) as http proxy.
Test performance using Apache-Bench:
$ ab -X localhost:7070 -c 10 -n 100 http://www.archive.org/
The -X options is to specify the proxy server.