[Filterproxy-devel] Re: FilterProxy 0.30

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

Michael Ralph Pape [ral...@we...] wrote:
> Hi,
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> I detected FilterProxy some days ago. A really great=20
> tool! Thanks a lot for it.

Glad you like it!

> After I installed it I played a while with it. There=20
> seems to be a bug in the http://freshmeat.net rule.
> The ad on the top is displayed.
> I've made NO changes to the rules in the configfile.
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> Would you please correct the rule? My understanding for=20
>   complex regular expressions in perl is not to good.

Actually it's not a rule problem.  (I discovered this too experimentally)

You must enable the Compress module for the freshmeat rule to work.  This is
because Freshmeat (and Yahoo, and several other sites) send out compressed
content, and in order to do filtering, FilterProxy must first decompress it,
and therefore the Compress module must be enabled.  Do not worry about
speed...even in compressing content sent to your browser, the Compress is v=
ery
fast compared to rewriting.

Let me know if this does not fix your problem.  I will make a note about th=
is
in the next release.

> Do you know urls where I could find other rules for filterproxy?

Unfortunately, no.  Few people have sent me rules to date, and rules that I
have received I have incorporated into the main release.  I think this is
mostly because writing a rule, and then copying out of the web-form or
FilterProxy.conf file is a pain in the butt.  In a future release I hope to
make rule management easier, and make sharing rules easier.

Cheers,
-- Bob

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