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We hear you, D.Draker. I have attempted to point out on a few different occasions that we have different goals for this thread. Proxomitron CAN connect to a REMOTE proxy, but my goal is its usage as a "web filter" 'local proxy'. You do "seem to", intentionally or not, want to "hijack" the thread and steer it towards your goal. Proxomitron CAN be used "towards" your goal, but it was not my intended target audience. I agree with RainyShadow, XP users are already familiar with this topic but were intimidated and confused by Proxomitron when they tried it the first time and so they walked away from Proxomitron. My goal herein is to alleviate that intimidation and confusion and perhaps generate enough interest here at MSFN for Proxomitron to tame the "modern web". Proxomitron is a Swiss Army Knife. It CAN be used to elliminate the need for NoScript, uMatrix, Stylus, Tampermonkey, Adblockers, Popup Blockers, Cookie blockers, Privacy Badger, I could list a thousand (literally!) "extensions" that Proxomitron can elliminate. My target is not to elliminate thousands of extensions - we all use them and are familiar with them. But some of us "power users" would PREFER to not have to have "too many" extensions - they slow down the web browser and consume excessive RAM. I apologize if I mislead you and gave any impression that your Instagram issue falls within my target audience.

As a quick update, much BETTER performance after taking ProxyHTTPSProxyMII out of the picture - Proxomitron "Reborn" does not require it. And I kept getting random first-start-only (requiring relaunch) "502 Gateway" errors with ProxyHTTPSProxyMII.

Totally agree on font rendering. Win 7 and Vista anti-aliased ClearType-tuned fonts give me migraines. Win 10 does not (no interest in even trying 11). I'm not talking just Chrome font rendering, the entire Windows GUI gives me migraines due to font blur, in ALL applications. The "edgy" fonts in XP are far from 'perfect', but at least they do not send me to the ER or put me in dark closet for four hours waiting for a migraine to subside.

Awesome find! Thanks!

I am only focusing on Proxomitron Reborn's usage as a local proxy. Your needs are concerned with remote proxies (which Proxomitron can connect to - but it is not really my focus here).

Back to the topic at hand -- Proxomitron "Reborn" does not require ProxHTTPSProxy or ProxHTTPSProxyMII. So the guide will remove it and focus solely on Proxomitron "Reborn" + PtronGUI.

lol, I haven't forgotten. I need to resolve an issue on "ordering" first. Proxomitron will not work as intended if the web browser does not allow Proxomitron injected javascript. I need to find a way for the Proxomitron injected javascript to work on a web site that NoScript or uMatrix disables web site javascript. I can get Proxomitron injected .css to work properly, but having a "slight" issue with Proxomitron injected .js (namely on httpS sites). Almost there... Proxomitron can technically REPLACE both NoScript and uMatrix (and Stylus). But since Proxomitron is "list-based" and NoScript, uMatrix, and Stylus all have a GUI that people know and love, I fear that nobody will give Proxomitron a true chance if I cannot get it to "play nice" with NoScript / uMatrix / Stylus / UBO / and similar. NoScript is the only true holdup at the moment. Almost there...

By default, I block the ENTIRE left profile area. Since Dave-H's glasses were commented on and the shield relative to the corner was commented on, I just set up a few temporary Stylus entries "just to pass the time", not because that's my default setting for the forum.

ZERO to do with "like/dislike". ZERO. I just hate avatar/profile pics. Some look like cartoons. Some look like mug shots. Some look like 50yr olds trying to relive their 20s. Some look like video games. I block any-and-all without prejudice. ZERO to do with "like/dislike".

Oh, don't get me started on that one! We have a USPS that has been BAILED OUT by the government for something like 14 out of the last 17 years and yet we can't get them to drop down to 5-day delivery versus 6-day and we have them delivering on SUNDAYS because of BS like FedEx and UPS off-loading to the USPS! I personally feel like We The People would be PERFECTLY FINE with mail being delivered ONE DAY PER WEEK - just ONE DAY PER WEEK. We ALL pay our bills ONE DAY PER WEEK, we do NOT need to receive them on a MONDAY only for them to sit on the desk until PAYDAY, generally ONE DAY PER WEEK.

Bummer, I was hoping this would "unbreak" my water bill web page but it doesn't. Are these errors polyfill-related?

My "experiment" kind of failed. Chrome v69 has a few "mobile phone" APIs (one is called "Smart Lock", don't recall the other one offhand) and while they do not launch or anything when ran from a desktop/laptop, I could not get 360Chrome to launch if I removed them. I plan to revisit and instead of removing them completely, I can edit the URLs to basically not go anywhere, that's how I (and "official Ungoogled") 'ungoogles' the ungoogled version. I was hoping to shave a few MB's off of the total file size. But even after removing completely (at which point it would no longer launch), it only shaved 15.3 KB

Additional nuance - line-through flyover text-decoration "overhangs" trailing end of text and adjacent input button. Resolved. html >> sidki_h_2019-01-26b1 >> proxjs-full.js --- " style=\"text-decoration:line-through!important\""; --->>> " style=\"text-decoration: line-through !important; display: inline-block;\""; html >> sidki_h_2019-01-26b1 >> css >> proxcss-general.css >> input.Pr0xBtn-Input --- margin: 4px 0 0 0 !important; --->>> margin: 0 0 0 4px !important;

Resolved. html >> sidki_h_2019-01-26b1 >> css >> proxcss-general.css >> div#pr0xDom-Div --- position: fixed; --->>> position: relative; Opted to keep as position-fixed afterall. May opt for :hover elements at a later time so these are transparent unless hovered over.

Tracker for updates to prox-config-sidki_2019-01-26b1 -- sidki_2019-01-26b1-uNorm.ptron -->> default.cfg all .ptxt file name extensions and references reverted to .txt [use standard OS extension so that no new file associations are needed] Lists --->>> lists [folder name] Docs --->>> docs [folder name] Textures --->>> textures [folder name] CSS --->>> css [folder name] SslPort = 8443 --->>> SslPort = 443 Use Local.Ptron https file server ProxN46R+ (edit!) ---- $SET(lpPort=:8443) --->>> $SET(lpPort=:443) renamed >> certs.pem --->>> certs.pem-disabled lists >> sidki_l_2019-01-26b1 ---- URL-Parser.txt -- updated 2009-07-04 sidki --->>> URL-Parser.txt -- updated 2019-03-24 JJoe <link> Remove: Prefetch Tags 19.1.20 [sd] (d.0) --->>> <link> Remove: Prefetch Tags 19.03.27 [sd] (d.0) added --->>> Content-Security-Policy: Remove nonce and hash 19.09.15 [jjoe] (d.0) (In) [add+] added --->>> Content-Security-Policy: Remove nonce,hash,strict 22.01.23 [jjoe] (d.0) (In) [add+] added --->>> <script> Remove: Integrity 19.09.15 (multi) [jjoe] (d.0) [add+] added --->>> <link> Remove: Integrity 19.09.15 (multi) [jjoe] (d.0) [add+] html >> sidki_h_2019-01-26b1 >> proxjs-full.js --- " style=\"text-decoration:line-through!important\""; --->>> " style=\"text-decoration: line-through !important; display: inline-block;\""; html >> sidki_h_2019-01-26b1 >> css >> proxcss-general.css >> div#pr0xDom-Div --- Bottom: 5px; !important; --->>> bottom: 5px !important; html >> sidki_h_2019-01-26b1 >> css >> proxcss-general.css >> input.Pr0xBtn-Input --- margin: 4px 0 0 0 !important; --->>> margin: 0 0 0 4px !important; added --->>> [WinSizes] unchecked --->>> 4.1.b Log to Main (ctrl+shift key) + Rare unchecked --->>> 4.2 Log common Nuisances unchecked --->>> 5.1 Session Cookies by Default checked --->>> Open normal Menu Links in new Window unchecked --->>> Title: Append Time, Snip Excess unchecked --->>> Title: Append Last-Modified or ETag unchecked --->>> Title: Prepend Proxy Indicator Last Uploaded == 01-24-2022

Status Update - ProxHTTPSProxyMII does work and is easy to configure - it was only the "test" dialog that is misleading (I think it's only intended to test "remote" proxies, not the link between Proxomitron and ProxHTTPSProxyMII, unsure). At any rate, it does work and I can use the most-recent version. Apologies for any confusion. Next, there are two "nuances" that I'd like to correct before uploading an update (I've provided info on 'how' to CREATE what I am uploading, but I will provide the updates so others can use without reinventing the wheel). The first nuance is the default use of "information hovers". The Proxomitron config that I use displays these "information hovers" in the lower left corner of the web browser's viewing area - but they do not scroll with the viewing area, they are "fixed" at that corner. You can turn these off by turning off the pertinant "filter", but we'll save that for later. It's a matter of personal preference, but I prefer these "hovers" to be at the very bottom of the web page, out-of-sight and out-of-mind until I scroll all the way to the very bottom of the web page. As an example, below are those "hovers" for MSFN. Note that the "cookies" hover has a line through the text - that's because I took the screencap before I logged in. But this screencap also demonstrates another powerful usage of Proxomitron - you can ALLOW a cookie on a particular web site, but you can FILTER the CONTENTS of that cookie. Just like javascript, you can ALLOW javascript on a given web site, but if that javascript has 150 "functions" and you want to disable 75 of those "functions", YOU CAN. Again, Proxomitron can be as "simple" as we want it to be, or as "complex" as we want it to be - it really is extremely powerful. When you hover over the "cookies" information hover, a small dialog pops up and tells you exactly what information that cookie CONTAINS. I've seen websites over the years that will put your ZIP CODE in the cookie so I'll fool the web site and edit their cookie to put me in California on one day, Florida on the next. I also have web sites that I disable cookies for but I "fake" a cookie to LOG IN - yep, you can LOG IN to a web site without even allowing that web sites cookie. Again, Proxomitron can be as "simple" as we want it to be, or as "complex" as we want it to be - it really is extremely powerful. The next nuance is how the config file "injects" .css and .js. For the purposes here at MSFN, I'm not looking to use Proxomitron as the Swiss Army Knife that it is - once your toes are wet, you'll swim out to the deep end on your own when you see yourself as ready for the deep end. So I'm not looking to "replace" NoScript + uMatrix + Stylus (or similar extensions), but rather work "with" them. So the nuance is that local .css is inserted as its own http domain but local .js is inserted as https with the original web page as the host domain. In other words, if you disable javascript by default (which I do and recommend from every rooftop I can shout from), then you cannot allow Proxomitron's local .js in NoScript because NoScript is blocking the original host domain.

Totally freaking amazing! I had this working FOUR DAYS AGO but I kept thinking that the "test" actually MEANT something when it said it "failed". Totally WOW! I've re-read several posts on the other forum and NONE of them mention that the "test" button DOES NOT WORK! At least not that I could find. I'm just glad that BOTH of my logs are now "scrolling". This wasn't hard at all. Just a d@mn "test" button that says "fail" when in reality it PASSES. I guess all I can do now is "laugh out loud". And nap because I've spent too much time on a "test" button that doesn't actually "test" anything

That's kinda not my primary goal here. But have you tried this -- https://windscribe.com/download

Hmm. The "m" has a "fallback feature" - when your remote proxy FAILS, it will fallback to a "direct connection" without warning ( https://proxomitron.info/files/index.html ). The Proxomitron community kind of went "up in arms" over that and the creator quickly released the "j" version. Lunch time so I'll revisit later.

Wow! Didn't even dawn on me to see if it "worked" and only the "test" was failing.

This is another of my Proxomitron "menus". The possibilities are limited only by one's imagination. This hidden menu opens when you hover over the top left corner and could easily contain Chromium links like chrome://flags or chrome://gpu or chrome://media-engagement or shortcuts to extension inner pages that normally take six mouse clicks to get to but now only take one.

I'm having the same failures in XP x86 XP3. My fingers are crossed, @RainyShadow, I hope you are seeing something that I am overlooking.

I've also only been testing in XP x64 - that shouldn't be relevant but mentioning it just in case. Will test in XP x86 SP3 shortly.

Technically the browser is irrelevant, the Proxomitron "test Proxy" is failing and that only tests the link between Proxomitron and ProxHTPPSProxyMII. This is the link to the 360Chrome I am using -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/6z65t5yo08fr0ym/360ChromePortable_11.0.2031_rebuild_8_ungoogled.zip But since you will be wanting to install Proxy SwitchySharp from the Chrome Web Store, use this one instead -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/mes4wez1v34w9k4/360ChromePortable_11.0.2031_rebuild_8.zip And I've tried both ways but Proxy SwitchySharp should not be required as 360Chrome uses the Operating System's Internet Explorer proxy server settings. Another proxy setting for Chrome-based browsers is to use a startup command line switch >> --proxy-server="http=localhost:8080,https=localhost:8079" (I've also tried --proxy-server="http=127.0.0.1:8080,https=127.0.0.1:8079") Getting 360Chrome to use the correct proxy is a piece of cake -- but Proxomitron connecting to ProxHTTPSProxyMII is a d@mn NIGHTMARE. Also, I'm not interested (at the moment) in BFilter or CCProxy - I just want Proxomitron and ProxHTTPSProxyMII to talk to each other. Also, the actual Proxomitron header and web filters are irrelevant at this point, they do not effect the two talking to each other as far as the "test Proxy" dialog is concerned. Thanks in advance for your assistance. Hope that you have better luck than I have had.

Yep! Very useful when debugging javascript What is your ProxHTTPSProxyMII's config.ini settings? I"M STILL NOT GETTING THIS D@MN THING TO CONNECT. SOOOO d@mn frustrating!