[Filterproxy-devel] Re: .net Advice

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

dotson [do...@re...] wrote:
> Bob,
> I've run the proxy on my Unix build machine.
> Next I am going to attempt to install it under Cygwin
> and then under XP itself. Can you point me any info regarding
> these installs?

Sorry, I know next to nothing about Windoze.  I did receive a report a
long time ago that someone had gotten it working under windows, but more
recently someone mentioned that it just doesn't work.  :(  I don't know.
Please let me know your success/failure.

> Have you turned your proxy into a web service. I did something
> like this years ago with PICS for a company called NetShepherd. We used P=
ICS
> definitions to send rules to the server which then expanded selections ba=
sed
> on rules. It wasn't about censorship (which is what everybody in the press
> thought--we weren't netNanny) but trying to build intelligent communities=
 of
> information based on filtered rules.

There was a company that tried to turn FP into a service. (kplab.com,
they called the service "linearC")   They have gone under however, part
of the internet boom.  They wrote new modules too that I haven't seen.
Unfortunately since they only operated a service and never distributed a
product, they aren't obligated to release their code.  :(  There are
others though that run spam-filtering services:

http://www.eclipse.net/adfilter/        (junkbuster)  free, even.

(ok that's the only one I found)

> Anyway, I've been screen scraping and annotating documents with xml/xslt =
and
> have thought about some type of proxy filter to speed things up (although
> I'm not convinced that it will).

So what exactly are you doing with xslt?

If you're rewriting/stripping ads and such, I'd be interested to see
your stylesheets.  While the XSLT module was implemented, I don't have
much in the way of stylesheets.

I hope in the next version to implement a central server, so when you
write rules you can choose to upload them to the mothership.  You can
then also go to sourceforge and browse other people's rules, and
download them into filterproxy.  This may go toward your "community"
idea.  Right now it's too much trouble to copy rules in and out of
filterproxy and mail them to the -devel or -users list.  Practically,
nobody sends me rules.  :(

So do you want to give me a brief spiel on what PICS is and why it might
be useful for FilterProxy?  I looked at w3.org/PICS briefly, but I don't
immediately see how it could relate to ad-filtering.  (It seems like it
would duplicate my URL regex functionality)

If you're interested in any of the above ideas and know perl, I could
use some help.  ;)  I'm pretty busy these days.  :(  You know, that
whole graduating thing.  Trouble.

Cheers,
-- Bob

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

"No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare."
    --James Madison, April 20, 1795