Re: [proxyTools-users] first time user of proxyTools (was:Re: Help for an absolutely new user)

[wayne <wa...@ny...>]

> From: Mat Brown <mat...@ya...>
> To: pro...@li...
> Subject: [proxyTools-users] rst time user of proxyTools (was:Re: Help for an absolutely new user)
> 
> Dear Wayne
> >
> >Wrong list. 
> >Go to the web page in my sig below, and join the 
> >proxytools-users list. 
> >
> 
> Done.
> Writing to the correct list I suppose ? 

Yep.

> >LocalProxy is one of the tools in that 
> >package. You don't need to understand any Perl, but if you do, 
> >you can make the tools do whatever you like.
> > 
> 
> Proceeding without knowing Perl :-) 

S'ok.

> >> Can the list moderator tell me where to start ?
> >
> >Assuming you've downloaded it and unzipped it, double-click 
> >readme.html and click the Overview link under 'Other tools' (hmm ... 
> >I will put this somewhere more obvious :-). Then look at the 
> >'Quick start' link under 'LocalProxy'.
> >
> >In summary it all says (I assume you use Windows):
> >1) install perl from www.activestate.com
> >
> 
> Done

Good. You will find that useful for other things too. Lotsa Perl 
on the net - all free, all good stuff. Search for whatever you want 
and try it.

> >The overview describes how to use each command-line tool. 
> >The most difficult (and most functional) tool is localProxy, 
> >so I'll run through that here. The other tools need some of 
> >the modules that get automatically downloaded in 2) 
> >below, so do this stuff anyway:
> >2) double-click localProxy.pl, and wait for the extra Perl modules 
> >   to download.
> 
> Done
> 
> After this a GUI comes up
> In that GUI there is box for configuration

Good. Didn't it try to download any modules?

> >3) select a configuration from the list (e.g.UAE-dialup). 
> >
> 
> Selected UAE Dialup

OK. That's one I can guarantee works.

> >4) click 'Start services', watch the log window which pops up
> 
> Done
> 
> >
> >5) wait for the build to finish and beep at you (could be minutes)
> >
> 
> Results from within the window are sent to you by direct mail 

No need for that, but ok.

> >6) configure the browser as described in the log window (proxy at 
> >   localhost:10080)
> >7) browse until it learns (complicated web pages are best). 
> >
> 
> The POP up window lists many proxies as "not" responding and so on

That's because you have an old copy from the zip (September?).
But LP just learns to avod those bad ones. The *only* effect should 
be that it will take more browsing to reach it's best speed.

> ***Before*** "Choosing config. & start services" I also tried 
> perl findProxy.pl file://c:/listOfProxies.txt
> 
> This listofproxies was a list I had
> 
> Results from within the window are sent to you by direct mail 

ok.

> Further questions
> ------------------
> 1) Local proxy is accepting connections from **just** my own firewall

So that others can't use your LP proxy. Security mainly.
If you want to share your LP with friends, I'll tell you how to set 
that in a configuration file.

> !! I am unable to use other working proxies. At least I haven't found
> out how to merge the results from find proxy into local proxy :-)

It's a long sequence:
The idea is that hosts.xml (the big database everyone gets from 
hosts.zip) is updated by me (or you if you must), and the config file 
you use is personalized with your own proxies by you. In both cases, 
the only tool for this is mergeHosts.pl (or by hand if you're daring).
If you copy config-UAE-dialup.xml to config-mat.xml and restart the 
both GUI and backend LP, you can select that config for your own use.
It will never get overwritten by any new versions of the tools that 
you get.

The input to mergeHosts.pl must be in a standard format, and that is 
produced by statProxy.pl (the proxyTools generalized proxy tester).

If your proxy list is in listOfProxies.txt, the whole sequence goes 
like this:
perl statProxy.pl -t all:-18 -l listOfProxies.txt > results.txt
(leave off the >results.txt if you want to see results on the screen).
Then:
perl mergeHosts.pl results.txt config-mat.xml
will update your config appropriately (disabling proxies as necessary, 
adding new ones, updating existing ones etc.) based on speed, 
connectability, reliability, capabilities.
Once in a while you can run statProxy on the config file itself, and 
use mergeHosts to update the config again. That ensures that all the 
ones in there (even if they came from somewhere other than your 
current proxylist file), are updated (and eventually disabled if bad).
You can do this as often as you like.

> 2) Please tell me what are complicated web pages ?
Ones with lots of banners, thumbnails, popups, or other components.
They all exercize LP.

> 3) How do I add more proxies

See above.

> 4) Does anyone have a working list of proxies that can work with Local
> Proxy

You already have hosts.zip (unzipped to hosts.xml whenever LP runs).
The latest version of it (and all the software) is always in the 
Sourceforge CVS. The latest hosts.zip is always at:
http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/proxytools/proxyTools/hosts.zip?rev=HEAD
or, better yet, I just made this one:
http://tinyurl.com/2hc6
That's a nice service, I think :-)

> Regards
> 
> Mat

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