Re: fwtk gone?

[Eberhard Mattes <mattes () azu informatik uni-stuttgart de>]

Paul D. Robertson wrote:

> Http-gw isn't the prettiest code around, but it works well.

Well, there are lots of ways to bypass http-gw's filtering. See my
postings to the FWTK mailing list.  Next time someone talks about
http-gw's filtering capabilities on that mailing list, I'll post
another method...

Bennett Todd wrote:

> I'd _Really_ love it if someone would hack up a way to splice
> applet-stripping into squid.

I wrote a replacement (squid-gw) for http-gw which acts as front end
to Squid:

  http://www.fwtk.org/fwtk/patches/em-gw.tar.gz
  http://www.fwtk.org/fwtk/patches/em-gw.asc

> I sure wish there were an http proxy that could strip applets and that
> wasn't under a depressingly restrictive license held by NAI.

My squid-gw is in the public domain, but it relies on the FWTK
library.  If only someone wrote a replacement for libfwall.a...

-- 
  Eberhard Mattes <mattes () azu informatik uni-stuttgart de>