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

[Mat B. <mat...@ya...>]

Dear Wayne

I am answering your questions here. 
Other portions of the mail have been snipped

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>> Further questions
>> ------------------
>> 1) Local proxy is accepting connections from **just** my own
firewall
>
>No, just your own computer.
>Unless LP screwed up!
>

you are right there ! it was my computer IP address

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>> >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?
>

It must have. 
I din't notice. May be I was busy checking the site :-) 

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>> >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?).
>

Yes. I have the one dated 04th Sep 02. That seems to be the oldest
build for "non-Technical" users. As far as I understand the CVS is for
the technically competent ? I have no idea of CVS. Am I missing
something here. 

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>> 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.
>

Ok. 
I wish to use it myself / test it myself. 
I do *not* wish to share it. 
Pl. forget this question for the moment

>
>> !! 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).
>

Didn't understand the above much. But still proceeding

>
>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.
>

The way I started  ..
- click on Local proxy.pl file and wait for the GUI to come up. 
- choose UAE-Dial up in the config box 
and 
- click "start Services". 

I did **not** copy config-UAE-dialup.xml to config-mat.xml 

What is config-mat.xml ? 
what is it named as in the config box inside the GUI 
For e.g. for a lay user like me config-UAE-dialup.xml appears as
UAE-dial up in the config box within the GUI. Similarly what does
config-mat.xml appear as

>
>It will never get overwritten by any new versions of the tools that 
>you get.
>

didn't understand this either

>
>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).
>

I had some 600 + proxies in a file ! The above command is taking quite
some time with that file !!. Though I'm occassionally checking that it
hasn't gone for a hang, it has taken some hours !!

How often does one run this ? 

Proxies come and go often. Proxies live now are dead later in the day
and come back next day and so on. If this checking is taking time how
do I check often ? 

>
>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.

I suppose the sequence is 

1. copy config-UAE-dialup.xml to config-mat.xml 
2. perl statProxy.pl -t all:-18 -l listOfProxies.txt > results.txt
( 1 and 2 may be independant of each other. I didn't mean a chronology
too ) 

3. perl mergeHosts.pl results.txt config-mat.xml
4. Restart both GUI and backend LP

5. What config should I select at this point ?

BTW what do you mean by back end LP
For a lay user is it the same as "Start Services" within the GUI ?

>
>Once in a while you can run statProxy on the config file itself, and 
>use mergeHosts to update the config again. 
>

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Sorry didn't understand that again
Could you please give me a list of commands ?
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>
>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.
>


Ok

Will send you the results.tx file by seperate mail



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