Proxomitron

Proxomitron is a non-free configurable HTTP proxy software, which has been found mainly due to their flexible filter language and its stability is a global user community. Proxomitron is working with the commercial operating systems Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista and Windows 7 With CrossOver 7.1.0 (Windows 2000 Bottle) or Darwine they can also be used on Mac OS X.

Thanks to the language filter the applications in the field of manipulation of web content are varied. The main task, however, have the elimination of unwanted Internet ads, pop -up windows, hazardous or " curious " scripts, web beacons, and anything else that obstructs or interferes with browsing the internet, established.

In addition to filtering, which the received from the web browser source code of a Web page can be manipulated Proxomitron offers also the possibility to edit the HTTP header. In this way, the communication between the browser and web server itself can be controlled not only the outcome (eg the website).

In order to generalize filters and apply them to whole groups of Web pages that lists are used ( in the form of text files) that can be easily extended by the user. The program is offered with many preconfigured standard filters and lists, so that even less experienced users can benefit directly from it.

Proxomitron uses an optimized HTML dialect of regular expressions. Its special properties such as the intelligent use of spaces, quotation marks and other HTML - specific features as well as the presence of a number of directly usable in the regular expression helper functions enable efficient manipulation of almost all aspects of the communication between the browser and web server.

The program was developed by Scott R. Lemmon. Presented with the completion of version 4.5 Naoko -j in 2003, the author presents a further development. On 1 May 2004 Scott R. Lemmon died at the age of 36 years. The German -language distribution will continue maintained by Michael Bürschgens and updated.

Under the name Proximodo an open source clone was developed by Proxomitron, which takes up the existing functions and contains some extensions in October 2004. However, the development has already closed down a year later again.

License

The program was published as Shonenware. Under Shonenware the author understands free software with optional license acquisition.