Fail-ternet

How to setup a Squid proxy to redirect images to images piped through imagemagick.

This was just a fun experiment that extended a bit on the Upside-down-ternet experiment (http://ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html). In addition to mangled images, it serves up a specific YouTube video.

The packages you need (that are most likely not installed by default) are:

• • Squid apt://squid

  • Imagemagick apt://imagemagick

  • and a web server such as Apache apt://apache2

• 1. Create directory /var/local/upsidedownternet/

  2. Place the redirector.py script in the directory above

  3. Insert the following into /etc/squid/squid.conf:

  4. redirect_program /var/local/upsidedownternet/redirector.py

  5. redirect_children 3

  6. Symlink /var/www/upsidedownternet to /var/local/upsidedownternet/

  7. Symlink /var/local/upsidedownternet/images to /tmp/upsidedownternet/

  8. Start up squid