[proxyTools-announce] new proxyTools/localProxy package on SourceForge

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

Hi,

It seems that my announcement (a couple of days ago) of the new 
proxyTools (and localProxy) package has been lost. 
So here's a rewrite:

All tools (incl. localProxy) are now in the proxyTools project at 
SourceForge. proxyTools.sf.net. For the impatient:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/proxytools/2001-12-01.zip

The latest package  is 2001-12-01.zip.
CVS is already a couple of versions further along, but there's no 
real reason to get them (yet) - the zip was pretty stable, I think.

Highlights (compared to the last package release):

Individual proxies and commStrats may be enabled/disabled in 
real time from the GUI. This is invaluable when trying to understand 
which ones are working for you and why. Or when something is not 
working and you want to post a bug report.

'Autoconfiguration' should be able to analyze the network for 
anyone, anywhere and create a user profile which works in localProxy.
At the minimum, it should provide a file (master.xml) which could 
be posted for assistance (obfuscate the addresses if you wish, but 
not too much).

'Save running configuration' now does. A new config called saved 
appears in the GUI list and can be used next time you want to start 
the engine. Startup times for these prebuilt configs (last, saved) 
are a fraction of the times for the normal ones (which require LP 
to build a running configuration from scratch).

Debug is now a 0-9 value. Crank it up to see what's really happening 
in the engine log window.

LP accepts commands embedded in the URL from a browser now. 
You can do *anything* this way. Username and password may be 
included, if you address is not already trusted.
I think this will eventually develop into a web interface instead 
of the Tk GUI I use now.

Many more commStrat 2 'tricks' (URL modification) are incorporated 
into LP. The old ones we used years back are working again, even 
in the KSA.

ADSL is handled optimally now; it worked before, but LP was being 
given a bad starting point so it took some time to learn.

Security on the control source is better.

Documentation is substantially improved, but it will still confuse 
you if you read too much :-). 
Start at LocalProxy_manual.html (to be renamed to readme.html in 
newer versions).

I seem to be just about finished adding new concepts to this thing, 
and I now find I'm looking more at fixing existing stuff and making 
it easier to use. I hope that boring trend does not continue ... :-)

-wayne