[proxyTools-announce] new localProxy release

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

Hi all,

The latest proxyTools/localProxy package is proxyTools-2002-02-21.zip.
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/proxytools/proxyTools-2002-02-21.zip

Highlights (compared to the last package release):

An 'Uncensored - Raw/Censored' button allows switching of the 
service listening on the default HTTP proxy port 10080. At the 
moment it's switching your browsing between the default uncensored 
mode and a censored mode in which your (presumably fast) local 
ISP's proxies are eligible. It's an interesting test to set this 
mode, disable commStrats 1 and 2, disable any of your own special 
proxies in layer 0, and try to surf to www.sex.com. You should 
see all the 'access denied' pages in the world (UAE, BESS, Cyber 
Patrol etc.) flash past and each one get refreshed as localProxy 
recognizes it. Fun to watch! Then if you enable one single layer 0 
proxy which is not censoring (your shell redirector maybe), or enable 
one other commStrat and one path there, you can watch localProxy 
slowly realize it's there and that it doesn't censor. Slowly that 
becomes the way it accesses everything. This is a good way to see 
that localProxy *is* learning, that it doesn't get caught in 
'local minima' and to see what speed it learns at. Good fun.

'Autoconfiguration' finds proxies in the registry too now. 
Proxies are tested in the background and the appearance of the file 
tests-auto.txt guarantees that has completed (merging of the results 
to the config takes place after that, but should only be a few 
seconds).

I still have some problems with the portability. Windows XP back end 
invocation, for example. I'd appreciate it if people on those systems 
where there are problems would assist one another - I only have 
Win2000 to develop and test on now.

wayne at nym.alias.net
http://proxytools.sf.net/
http://www.angelfire.com/my/6waynes