Re: Distribution of user skills

From	"Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Distribution of user skills
Date	2016-12-08 21:00 +0000
Organization	dis
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On Thu, 08 Dec 2016 19:27:39 -0000, Mike Spencer  
<mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:

>
> Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> writes:
>
>> On 07 Dec 2016 16:12:58 -0400, Mike Spencer
>> <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> How do I arrange that my user-space browser will proxy all my requests
>>> through a localhost utility that will (a) detect incoming responses
>>> that are HTML and (b) edit a response according to rules that I can
>>> specify?

Proxomitron?
http://proxomitron.info/

>>>
>>> I do this for a couple of specific sites that I visit often. Browser
>>> sends request to Apache on localhost; Apache runs cgi-bin script to
>>> send URL data, fetch (possibly unpacking chunked replies), edit and
>>> return results to browser.  I haven't figured out how to generalize
>>> this.
>>
>> Have a look at privoxy
>> https://www.privoxy.org/
>
> Oh, very good.  Sounds promising after a look at the FAQ.  Biggish d/l
> for dialup so I'll wait to fetch the package until I have the laptop
> out at some broadband location.
>
> Looks (after a quick glance) as though there may be some gotchas.
> Ideally, it would be something I can contrive to turn on and off on
> the fly: The Guardian? strip all crap. OtherSite.com? leave it alone.
> Rather than make the string-matching config completely right for every
> case.  Or not.
>
> We'll see.  Thank you very much.
>
>


-- 
Bah, and indeed, Humbug

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Distribution of user skills RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2016-12-06 07:00 -0500
  Re: Distribution of user skills Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-12-06 12:44 +0000
    Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-06 12:52 +0000
      Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-06 10:04 -0500
      Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-06 18:39 -0400
      Re: Distribution of user skills Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:35 +0000
  Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-06 18:23 -0400
    Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-06 22:26 +0000
      Re: Distribution of user skills Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-06 22:46 +0000
        Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 03:06 -0400
          Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:00 +0000
            Re: Distribution of user skills Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-12-07 15:52 +0000
          Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-07 11:57 -0500
            Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 14:01 -0400
              Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-07 14:53 -0500
            Re: Distribution of user skills Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-12-07 23:36 +0000
          Re: Distribution of user skills Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 21:13 +0000
            Re: Distribution of user skills "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-08 12:12 +0000
              Re: Distribution of user skills Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2016-12-08 12:16 +0000
      Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 02:53 -0400
        Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:05 +0000
          Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-07 16:12 -0400
            Re: Distribution of user skills Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-12-07 21:20 +0000
              Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-08 15:02 -0400
            Re: Distribution of user skills Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-12-07 23:31 +0000
            Re: Distribution of user skills Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2016-12-08 10:42 +0100
              Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-08 15:27 -0400
                Re: Distribution of user skills "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2016-12-08 21:00 +0000
                Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-09 03:22 -0400
                Re: Distribution of user skills Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-09 09:53 +0000
                Re: Distribution of user skills Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-12-10 04:00 -0400
                Re: Distribution of user skills Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-12-10 22:34 -0500
  Re: Distribution of user skills Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-12-07 12:52 +1100
    Re: Distribution of user skills "Andy K." <andy.k466@gmail.com> - 2016-12-07 08:26 +0100
      Re: Distribution of user skills Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-12-07 11:40 +0000
        Re: Distribution of user skills Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-12-07 20:32 +0000

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