Hey there....
I gave up on proxies because using a anonymous https proxy takes more time, i have dhcp based isp connection, i find it much faster to renew the lease to get a new ip from my isp thru a script than scan a website for annonymous proxies and filter them, test for reachability, protocol support, dns reachability thru the proxy etc.
Everything that u mentioned on that thread, i do that too, grabbing proxies, sorting by reachability, removing proxies that do not work with https, swtihing proxies when the proxy begins to act funny, or you get locked out, grabbing and saving the wacs to a txt file, reading wacs out of txt and updating status, maintaining a complete historiecal status, generating html etc.
the code that i wrote had two major advantages it does not need to be recompiled every time i make a mod and It can be tailored for any type(s) of cases/NDs/WACs Range etc on the fly without having to recompile, I dont need a GUI, i have simple scripts that do NOT ask for command line args either, everything is configurable by editing a few init lines at the top of the file....as you may have found out, modifying and compiling is a painful process...especially considering thati do enchance my scripts to my taste every now and then.
Also i am more comfortable modifying my own code... i would defnitely not recommend ppl to reinvent the wheel by writing their own code unless they want to waste a lot of time, talkative seems to have pretty good piece of s/w that ppl may find useful.
I have bash scripts if you are adventurous and have lots of time to waste i will give em to u.
Btw, like i said, i use my isp, i change my ip when i get locked out, therefore i dont use proxies anymore...they are just too time consuming.
talkative said:
donkeykong and others:
If you haven't already, try this scanner:
http://immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=149042
I tried to make the whole proxy thing a bit easier. It worked well for me.
~T