AutoProxy Configurator / News: Recent posts

I have decided to move the codebase to Subversion for version control and disabled CVS.

A new release is out fixing some problem found with IE7.

Adjusted the code/structure to conform with some Java best practice recommendations.

Hopefully the next release will include the web interface, which is now under testing.

This new release implements a new feature, which allows a failover to "no proxy" and instead allows the client to directly connect to the internet.

This might be usefull in some situations, e.g. proxy server Maintenance or in case the auto proxy script is cached by the internet browser where it should not use the proxy script.

Version 1.4 is out and resolves the problem with Internet Explorer and Opera Browser not being able to parse the dynamically created autoproxy script due to a HTML comment.

This release contains a minor configuration fix reported as BUG# 1221825

I re-wrote the documentation to make things easier for administrator deploying the AutoProxy Server.

Please have a look and enjoy the AutoProxy Server.

I welcome any feedback!

New Feature:
Extended the functionality to view the configuration as HTML report:

JAPC now generates an HTML output (report) when accessing the proxy.jsp using a special "cmd" parameter as described below.

Report contains:
1. Special Exceptions for URL
2. General Exceptions, URL's ignoring the proxy configuration
3. Active Proxies sorted according to its priority

Below is an example on how to access/generate the report:... read more

Added functionality to debug the output by adding the following parameter to the URI:

cmd=getActiveProxy

example:
http://localhost:8084/AutoProxy/proxy.jsp?cmd=getActiveProxy

When used, the browser will show the content as if it were normal text.

I have released the first version of the stable release of JAPC.

This release also contains the bugfix related to the JNDI resource factory with version tomcat 5.5.x.

It seems that the JNDI resource implemention I worked on
works fine in version 5.0.x of Apache Tomcat. With the
latest release, which comes bundled with Netbeans 4.1,
my JNDI
implementation does not work anymore.

I am working on this issue now. Until this is fixed please try using Tomcat 5.0.x instead.

Best Regards,
Shin

New Beta 1.0 Released.

The main changes are within the configuration and deployment of JAPC.

The deployment is according to standard web application deployment guidelines. The binary release contains the configuration files and a single WAR (web archive), which can be easily deployed using the Apache Tomcat administration page.

The location of the configuration files can now be configured within the context.xml of the web application (after deployment) or within the XML files, which initially must be located within the /AutoProxyConfig directory.

The japc project is now back online and ready for new fresh start.

Thanks to "tatlin", a new look and feel for the project webpage is now online. (http://japc.sourceforge.net).

He has also submitted a Logo for this project, which is now the official logo for this project.

In addition a new realease will be ready within the next few days, which implements better way to handle the JAPC configuration files.... read more

Today the first draft version of AutoProxyGUI interface layout has been released for review. It is primarily to show how the GUI will look at the final stage and thus does not include any "functional" code.

You may start downloading the code through the CVS system or through ViewCVS:

Module Name: AutoProxyGUI

ViewCVS: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/japc/AutoProxyGUI/

For any questions please do not hesitate to contact me through either the public discussion forum or through email via sterneck@users.sourceforge.net

AutoProxy Configuration project homepage needs a new look&feel. If you are intersted in creating or giving suggestions to a new look&feel please contact contact me.

http://japc.sourceforge.net or
http://japc.somelocation.com

The alpha release of AutoProxy Configurator has been released today for initial testing. Go and get it asap.

A temporary hompage to give you up-to-date information about this project has been released today. If you are interested in designing (or participating in) our final version of the webpage please contact me.

Homepage:
http://japc.sourceforge.net or
http://japc.somelocation.com