[proxyTools-users] Re: hosts.xml

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

> From: "mbatrawi" <mba...@ho...>
> To: "wayne" <wa...@ny...>
> Subject: Re: hosts.xml
> 
> > > Hey Wayne
> > > If I have say 20 good working proxies.
> > > How I can use them *only* in hosts xml
> >
> > You don't want to. :-)
> >
> > To add to hosts.xml, or to any of the xml config files, you really
> > want to use mergeHosts - that's it's job.
> > MergeHosts needs input in the format from statProxy, so you need
> > to run your list through statProxy first.
> >
> > As I said, you really don't want to muck with hosts.xml.
> > You want to add these to your personal configuration (assuming
> > you want them to be kept secret).
> > If you don't want them to be kept secret, send them to me and
> > I will do all this for you. They will then appear in the latest
> > hosts.xml for localProxy to use automatically for everyone.
> I don't have any secret.. only I want from where start the beginning and I
> got it.

Leave the hosts file internal structure there, but remove the hosts.
Or use mergeHosts to set all to isEnabled=0.

But why do this? If hosts.xml has any proxy better than the ones 
you want to use in it, then surely you want it to use that?

What's the reason to do this?
Let's see ...
1) LP is slow to build because it needs to load all the hosts.xml 
proxies in?
or
2) LP is using proxies that don't work?

If it's 2), you should tell me which ones, and I will test/fix 
the hosts.xml
If it's 1), you should tell me so I can speed it up - noone has 
complained so far. I think Madani mentioned this once and I asked 
if it worried others. Noone said anything. On my machines it takes 
a total of maybe 45 secs to build the whole lot (except for one 
166MHz machine, but I'm not counting that one :-). In this case, 
you could change the number per layer (see globals.xml:   
<item key="maxNrHostsPerLayer">10</item>)

> > Exactly what do you need to do?
> >
>  regards and Thanx
>  mbatrawi

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