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WebCleaner
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WebCleaner is a filtering HTTP proxy.
It can
o disable animated GIFs
o compress documents on-the-fly (with gzip)
o enhance your privacy (remove user-agent: header and obfuscate IP address)
o remove all HTML crap (adverts, javascript, ...)
o be completely customized to your needs
Installing
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Read the file INSTALL
Configuration
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Run the nice GUI config tool "webcleanerconf".
The underlying configuration format is a custom XML format which is
explained in config/filter.dtd and config/webcleaner.dtd.
Note
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WebCleaner is _not_ an HTTP compliant proxy because it modifies requests
and headers!
Credits
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Credits go to munchy.py from Neil Schemenauer <nascheme@enme.ucalgary.ca>.
The proxy class is based on his code.
The filter code design is inspired from FilterProxy, a Perl program from
Bob McElrath <mcelrath+filterproxy@draal.physics.wisc.edu>.
Me, Bob and the author of AIFilter (Tels) had a nice discussion about
filter formats with good ideas. Tels convinced me to try stateful
filtering and I realize that it is very nice indeed.
Disabling animated GIFs is a question of honor, but the idea goes back to
the Webwasher.