Fifth International World Wide Web Conference
Pythia, an Implemented WWW Proxy
Demonstrates distillation technology applied to the WWW
Implemented as HTTP 1.0+ proxy (similar idea:
Mazer et al.,
Application-Specific Proxy Servers as HTTP Stream Transducers
)
Publicly accessible
User preferences specified via HTML form
Links for refinement added to HTML
Distillers can run locally or on Berkeley's
Network of Workstations (NOW)
Distillation tuned to network parameters periodically reported by Daedalus
Network Connection Monitor
Reducing WWW Latency and Bandwidth Requirements by Real-Time Distillation
(A.Fox,E.A.Brewer)