One Alternative down

Out of the two alternatives that I came out with in my last post, the second one is down.
I searched for ways to how to change the url just before it is fetched. But could not find satisfying solutions.
But the first option is still alive. In fact, I got a few promising solutions. This site lists a few http proxy servers that have been made in python that do not need superuser privileges. The one that I downloaded requires python 2.4 and our 200 is still in the old age of 2.3. So I will have to select some other one. Lets see...
And yes FuckProxy is on its way. Its almost complete.

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Alternatives to FuckProxy

My mind travels faster than speed of light. FuckProxy is not even complete and I have already thought of two more approaches to tackle this same problem. And did I mention that the FuckProxy project is my 6th approach for creating a proxy. Well... none of them was perfect and so I keep trying newer and newer approaches. FuckProxy is a totally new approach that uses greasemonkey. And its almost over. Beta version is just coming.
Well... now the alternatives:-

1. I heard newer versions of python have some built-in library for creating proxy servers. I could run such a proxy server on 200 and bingo nothing else needs to be done. This is not the proxy that I have been making for so long. This one is not like anonymous proxy, but exactly like the 204 proxy using port 8080. The only possible glitch could be the requirement of superuser privileges. I have not seen yet whether it needs super user privileges or not.

2. I could make a firefox extension that changes each url just before it is fetched. This will be very easy if I could find how to do it. No more parsing the page source or DOM.

I have also thought to improve FuckProxy. I could install my proxy cgi scripts, that is presently on 200, on several other iiit systems that have direct access to internet and my greasemonkey script could use all of them at random to balance the load, enhancing the user experience!

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Hello World

So this is the customary "Hello World" post.
Well.. I have started this blog to maintain personal notes and reports on whatever little technical *bc* I keep doing now and then. My winds keeps wandering in endless regions and sometimes I take some silly idea seriously and start working on it. I need to record all those things for my future reference. I work in bursts and I need some way to recall exactly what I did before and what I was thinking before.
At first I thought to keep this blog private... as it is for my own reference. But then, on a second thought, may be my little *bc* work may be of some help to some wannable geek sitting in some other corner of the world. Also a little extra money through google adsense program never hurts :D
So guys and gals, wish me luck for all my future technical endeavours.
Bye for now.

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