[Filterproxy-devel] FilterProxy 0.29.2

[Bob M. <mce...@dr...>]

=2E..has been released.

This is an interim release containing many bug fixes.  I'm about to rip
out Parse::ePerl, and wanted to make sure these bug fixes got out first.
(check the ChangeLog)  I have tried installing Parse::ePerl on a perl
5.6 machine recently.  It was ugly.  Very ugly.  I even tried to make
eperl rpms.  That was uglier still.  If you're using FilterProxy with
perl 5.6, consider yourself supremely talented.

Also in this release is a new Source module thanks to John Waymouth.
It works two ways:=20
    http://source/url=20
or=20
    http://localhost:8888/Source.pm?url
where url is the url you want to load.  Note this will show you the
UNFILTERED source by converting the mime-type to text/plain.  There are
a few neato javascript bookmarks on the home page:
    http://draal.physics.wisc.edu/FilterProxy/
to do things like: "view unfiltered source for this page", "enable
filtering", "disable filtering", and bring up the config page.

Numerous rule updates, including some to block evil javascript
popups/popunders.  If you have written new rules for FilterProxy, please
send them to me and I will include them in future distributions.  I was
pleased to discover that the new jump-through ads on salon.com were
already filtered by existing rules!  We shall see whether some new
announced "filter-detector" will actually work on FilterProxy:
    http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=3D01/09/29/002222
I will postpone my musings about the future of internet advertising for
another day, but if you search the above discussion you will find a
comment by me on the subject.

Also, FilterProxy now loops over the modules in the FilterProxy/
directory and tries to load them all.  If they fail to load it will
print an error message, but FilterProxy WILL STILL RUN if some modules
do not load.  You will probably discover that there is an ImageComp
module, which will recompress jpegs, among other things.  But it depends
on ImageMagick (something I haven't installed)...and will fail to load.
This is not a problem.  You can still use FilterProxy as usual.

Coming soon:=20
    "View how this page was filtered" -- marked-up source.
    HTML::Mason replacing Parse::ePerl.

Off I go to install perl 5.6...
-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsm...@st...)=20
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics