Proxomitron

[Baron Munchausen]

The JD5000 filters certainly have the strongest following. They are very comprehensive and many people are quite happy with them. But they are also very arcane and can be difficult to modify yourself if you are not an HTML and Proxomitron expert. I prefer to have control so I am running my own customized filters based on the default set plus 'cherry picking' what I could understand and use from others, including the JD5000 set.

There are a few good Online sources of filters and ideas besides the JD5000 site. They tend to be out-of-date, though.

http://www.geocities.com/u82011729/prox/

http://www.sankey.ws/proxomitron.html

http://accs-net.com/smallfish/prox.htm

Edit: The Computer Cops Proxomitron forums look very good, too. Added those to my personal bookmarks for Prox resources.

[ June 14, 2004, 14:25: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Fyron]

BM, you said you had some filters that reshape the Yahoo site. Do you have some that can alter the Yahoo mailing list pages so that it doesn't send you to a full page ad every third message you view?

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, there's a simple header filter that recognizes the 'detour' and extracts the 'continue' destination, sending you on to the message without even seeing the ad page. I got it off the prox-list group.

code:

---

In = TRUE

Out = FALSE

Key = "Location: Yahoo Groups ad skipper [12-25-2003] (In)"

URL = "[^/]++Groups.yahoo.com/group/[^/]+/interrupt"

Match = "\0&http://([^/]++)\1Groups.yahoo.com/group/[^/]+/interrupt*done=\2"

Replace = "http://\1Groups.yahoo.com$UESC(\2)$LOG(VRESP $DTM(c): Location: Yahoo relocator <Matched> \0)"

---

I've used the 'code' brackets in the hope that none of the 'special' characters get eaten by the BB software. There is one 'special' condition for this even if it works, though. Yahoo also tries to send you a cookie when it tries to redirect you to the ad page. If you don't accept the cookie, it thinks it has to try again. This results in a loop that continues until a recursion limit is reached (by your browser, by prox, or by the site. It depends who has the higher limit ) and you just don't get to see the page.

[ June 17, 2004, 00:15: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

[Fyron]

Thanks!